Picturesqueness

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Picturesque \Pic`tur*esque"\, a. [It. pittoresco: cf. F.
     pittoresque. See {Pictorial}.]
     Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture;
     representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate
     to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which
     is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic;


     vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque
     language.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           What is picturesque as placed in relation to the
           beautiful and the sublime? It is . . . the
           characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. --De
     Quincey.
     [1913 Webster] -- {Pic`tur*esque"ly}, adv. --
     {Pic`tur*esque"ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  picturesqueness
       n : visually vivid and pleasing