winningness

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English

Etymology

From winning +‎ -ness.

Noun

winningness (uncountable)

  1. The quality or state of being winning.
    • 1979, High Fidelity Musical America, volume 29, number 2:
      Taylor tried a jape or two as in a campy hootch number for Linda Kent who, for some prankish reason, made her entrance behind an obliging cabbage; but the whole seemed underchoreographed and overdependent upon the winningness of the dancers.
    • 1879, John Morley, Burke:
      Those who insist on charm, on winningness in style, on subtle harmonies and fine exquisiteness of suggestion, are disappointed in Burke