sightfulness

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noun

The state of being sightful; perspicuity.

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Meanings

nounsightfulness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe state of being sightful; perspicuity.

    Let vs not wincke, thoughe voyde of pureſt ſightfullnes.

    The Old Arcadia

    Albert Feuillerat, editor (1926), “The Second Book”, in The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia: Being the Original Version […] (Cambridge English Classics; The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; IV), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, →OCLC, page 143
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    It makes sense, then, to reconsider nostalgia not as blindness but as sightfulness

    2001, Peter Fritzsche, Specters of History: On Nostalgia, Exile, and Modernity

Origin

From sightful + -ness.

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APA

sightfulness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sightfulness

MLA

“sightfulness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sightfulness. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sightfulness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sightfulness.

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