picturesqueness

Noun

Meaning

visually vivid and pleasing

the quality of being strikingly expressive or vivid

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

radiance appeal beauty attraction charm refinement fairness elegance glamour loveliness comeliness attractiveness exquisiteness handsomeness prettiness
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Antonyms

ordinary plain pale faded unpleasant ugly
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Hypernyms

beauty expressiveness

Examples

I like complexity and contradiction in architecture. I do not like the incoherence or arbitrariness of incompetent architecture nor the precious intricacies of picturesqueness or expressionism. Robert Venturi

The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other. Saki

We may fill our purses, but we pay a heavy price for it in the loss of picturesqueness and beauty. James Nasmyth

Close letter words and terms

picturesque picturesque dragonet picturesquely picturesquish picturing picturisation