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  • noun The state or condition of being evocative.

Etymologies

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evocative +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • "Hunter: The evocative power of that mysterious line is what got to me -- the notion of evocativeness rather than pat statements."

    Ambiguity essay David Dodd 2005

  • His extraordinary evocativeness is usually the result of surprising economy of method.

    Archive 2010-07-01 Tim Stretton 2010

  • His extraordinary evocativeness is usually the result of surprising economy of method.

    :Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2010

  • I've been enjoying much of Tom Clark's ekphrastic writings -- he's certainly one of the more deeply enchanting practitioners of image-inspired poems out there, from a flying flock of Barnacle geese to extending the evocativeness of Egon Schiele .

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • I've been enjoying much of Tom Clark's ekphrastic writings -- he's certainly one of the more deeply enchanting practitioners of image-inspired poems out there, from a flying flock of Barnacle geese to extending the evocativeness of Egon Schiele .

    THE BEAUTIFUL MIND OF TOM CLARK 2009

  • It contains many passages of extreme power and evocativeness, underscored by the eerie presence of wartime Sweden, with its military personnel on the streets, its whispered conversations held in fear of being overheard.

    Archive 2009-11-01 David McDuff 2009

  • It contains many passages of extreme power and evocativeness, underscored by the eerie presence of wartime Sweden, with its military personnel on the streets, its whispered conversations held in fear of being overheard.

    Karin Boye - a biographical profile - 9 David McDuff 2009

  • I desired sunrise to revise itself as apparition, majestic in evocativeness, two fountains traced nearby on a lawn....

    Barbara Guest greenintegerblog 2008

  • / I desired sunrise to revise itself / as apparition, majestic in evocativeness….

    Barbara Guest greenintegerblog 2008

  • I also taped "Busty Cops 2" purely for the evocativeness of title and description: Three voluptuous women use time travel to fight injustice and wrongdoing.

    Cat Rambo catrambo 2007

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