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suggestiveness

Noun

Meaning

(uncountable) The state or quality of being suggestive.

(countable, rare) The result or product of being suggestive.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. Nathaniel Hawthorne

They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares. Joseph Conrad

It is important to distinguish the difficulty of describing and learning a piece of notation from the difficulty of mastering its implications. [...] Indeed, the very suggestiveness of a notation may make it seem harder to learn because of the many properties it suggests for exploration. Kenneth E. Iverson

There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. . . . Václav Havel

Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all. Mary MacLane

A good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it almost seem like a live teacher. Bertrand Russell

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