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n. - Attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates.

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Usage examples (4)
  • It's about visual contentment, appealingness for its own sake.
  • Yet at the same time, mixed in therewith, a curious strain of womanish, nay childish, weakness, appealingness.
  • It was opened by Christine, who had, perhaps, bathed her face, for the traces of tears were almost gone, though enough remained to give her eyes an appealingness that...
  • It was not vanity -- it was ready sympathy that had made him alive to a certain appealingness in her behavior toward him; and the difficulty with which she had seemed to...
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