Meanings
- dateduncountableThe quality of being arrestive.
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1910, Douglas Sladen, “An Appreciation” in Yoshio Markino, A Japanese Artist in London, London: Chatto & Windus, p. vii, […] Mr. Markino in his quaint English has sometimes an arrestiveness almost equal to Thomas Carlyle’s. There is real style in it. He has evolved a grammar of his own which is strikingly effective.
Synonyms: strikingness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe quality of being arrestive.
Origin
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arrestiveness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/arrestiveness
“arrestiveness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/arrestiveness. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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