sceneful

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English

Etymology 1

From scene +‎ -ful.

Adjective

sceneful (comparative more sceneful, superlative most sceneful)

  1. Having much scenery; scenic.
    • 1842, William McCarty, Songs, Odes, and Other Poems, on National Subjects: Patriotic:
      Clad in the verdure of unnumber'd isles, Where scepter'd William's massy bulwarks stand, The guard and glory of the sceneful land.
    • 1937, Edward Gay Ainsworth, Poor Collins: his life, his art, and his influence, page 83:
      He never came to view the sceneful world with the minuteness and understanding of a later poet who could describe The Man who slices lemons into drink, The coffee-roaster's brasier, and the boys That volunteer to help him turn its winch.
    • 2007, Poetry Criticism - Volume 72, page 172:
      In proper midcentury fashion, Collins “view[s] that Oak, the fancied Glades among,” views the indolent, sightless Milton, views the whole Edenic mount in his wildly sceneful fancy.

Etymology 2

From scene +‎ -ful.

Noun

sceneful (plural scenefuls or scenesful)

  1. A quantity contained in a scene.
    • 1932, Science News - Volumes 21-22, page 178:
      Not even the heart of one of the delectable slim-legged ponlettes who high-heel in swarms wherever the celluloid Napoleons decree a sceneful of "extras, female"; no, nothing but a downy, cuddly chick that eventually grows up into a cackling, flowerbed-scratching Biddy, with no ambition beyond inspiring omelets and eventually herself becoming casserole filling.
    • 1943, New York Theatre Critics' Reviews - Volume 4, page 308:
      She cannot resist a sceneful of scathing remarks for one final humiliation of her husband before she leaves.
    • 2006, Anna M. Shields, Crafting a Collection:
      I only get a sceneful of sorrow.

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