Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being engaging; attractiveness; attraction: as, the engagingness of his manners.
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- noun The state or quality of being
engaging .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Unhappily, Barzun's text goes on to page 802; some of the engagingness poops out when he hits the 1960s and the culture hits the skids.
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It is quite possible that Arnold Carruth did profit unworthily by his beauty and engagingness, albeit without calculation.
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Even across the street, Larcher was impressed anew with the young man's engagingness of expression, which owed much to a whimsical, amiable look about the mouth.
The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day Robert Neilson Stephens 1886
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'I will not bear with interference, if not from Percy, certainly not from his deputy -- a mere spoilt child, a very good child, but spoilt by her position, by John's over-estimate of her, and by the deference exacted by her weakness and her engagingness.
Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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