sightfulness

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word sightfulness. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word sightfulness, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say sightfulness in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word sightfulness you have here. The definition of the word sightfulness will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofsightfulness, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Etymology

From sightful +‎ -ness.

Noun

sightfulness (uncountable)

  1. The state of being sightful; perspicuity.
    • c. 1570s – 1580 (date written), [Philip Sidney], “he Second Eglogues”, in he Countess of Pembrookes Arcadia [The Old Arcadia], folio 74, recto, line 17:
      Let vs not wincke, thoughe voyde of pureſt ſightfullnes.
      For a transcription, see: Albert Feuillerat, editor (1926), “The Second Book”, in The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia: Being the Original Version  (Cambridge English Classics; The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; IV), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, →OCLC, page 143.
    • 2001, Peter Fritzsche, Specters of History: On Nostalgia, Exile, and Modernity‎:
      It makes sense, then, to reconsider nostalgia not as blindness but as sightfulness

References

“sightfulness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia