picturesqueness

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English

Etymology

From picturesque +‎ -ness.

Noun

picturesqueness (countable and uncountable, plural picturesquenesses)

  1. The condition of being picturesque.
    • 1887, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, “Walter S. Landor—G. P. Marsh”, in What I Remember , volume II, London: Richard Bentley and Son , →OCLC, pages 245–246:
      He [Walter Savage Landor] was a man of somewhat leonine aspect as regards the general appearance and expression of the head and face, which accorded well with the large and massive build of the figure, and to which a superbly curling white beard added not only picturesqueness, but a certain nobility.

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