picturesqueness

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noun

The condition of being picturesque.

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Meanings

nounpicturesqueness (countable and uncountable, plural picturesquenesses)

plural picturesquenesses

  1. countableuncountableThe condition of being picturesque.
    1 more example

    He [Walter Savage Landor] was a man of somewhat leonine aspect as regards the general appearance and expression of the head and face, which accorded well with the large and massive build of the figure, and to which a superbly curling white beard added not only picturesqueness, but a certain nobility.

    1887, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, “Walter S. Landor—G. P. Marsh”, in What I Remember […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley and Son […], →OCLC, pages 245–246

Origin

From picturesque + -ness.

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Translations

Czech malebnost, pitoresknost
  • malebnostcondition of being picturesque
  • pitoresknostcondition of being picturesque
Esperanto pitoreskeco
  • pitoreskecocondition of being picturesque
German Malerhaftigkeit
  • Malerhaftigkeitcondition of being picturesque
Lithuanian vaizdingumas
  • vaizdingumascondition of being picturesque
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APA

picturesqueness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/picturesqueness

MLA

“picturesqueness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/picturesqueness. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “picturesqueness,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/picturesqueness.

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