Synonyms for suggestiveness

Grammar : Noun

Spell : suh g-jes-tiv, suh-

Phonetic Transcription : səgˈdʒɛs tɪv, sə-

Définition of suggestiveness

Origin : 1630s, "conveying a hint," from suggest + -ive. Specifically as a faintly euphemistic reference to proposals of indecent behavior, from 1888. Related: Suggestively; suggestiveness.

noun sensuality

Example sentences :

It is full of suggestiveness, and, in its way, is as good as a cathedral.
Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Can the English Gladstonians get away from the suggestiveness of this fact?
Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

He called her name; the ensuing silence was ghastly in its suggestiveness.
Extract from : « The Web of the Golden Spider » by Frederick Orin Bartlett

The involutions, the suggestiveness so attractive to adult ears, he cannot hear.
Extract from : « Here and Now Story Book » by Lucy Sprague Mitchell

And these have each their special religious associations and suggestiveness.
Extract from : « The Worship of the Church » by Jacob A. Regester

This suggestiveness was lost upon Catherine, who repeated her violent inquiry.
Extract from : « Washington Square » by Henry James

The tragic power and suggestiveness of these two poems is very remarkable.
Extract from : « Yorkshire Dialect Poems » by F.W. Moorman

This notwithstanding, they are valuable by reason of their suggestiveness.
Extract from : « Fables and Fabulists: Ancient and Modern » by Thomas Newbigging

He loves words for their sound, their suggestiveness, their color.
Extract from : « Expository Writing » by Mervin James Curl

It is possible, of course, and there is a suggestiveness about it which—— Oh!
Extract from : « The Riddle of the Mysterious Light » by Mary E. Hanshew

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