Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or state of being irresistible; irresistibility.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Quality of being irresistible.
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- noun The quality of being
irresistible .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being overpowering and impossible to resist
Etymologies
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Examples
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And it helps, too, that the temperature credibly rises between Diaz and Munar, who have no trouble with the illusion of irresistibleness.
Theater review: 'Oedipus el Rey' at Woolly Mammoth Peter Marks 2011
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And it helps, too, that the temperature credibly rises between Diaz and Munar, who have no trouble with the illusion of irresistibleness.
Theater review: 'Oedipus el Rey' at Woolly Mammoth Peter Marks 2011
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If this be so, fancy the irresistibleness of that might, to which the most impalpable and destructive of all elements contributes.
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These phrases also mean nothing, but are an attempt at explaining the suddenness and irresistibleness of the attack.
Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson
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This system of easy victory and of yearning for other worlds to conquer, instead of making him fit himself capably for a larger field, has, on account of this absurd fault of irresistibleness, only made him superficial.
From a Girl's Point of View Lilian Bell
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We get just the idea of the irresistibleness of God which David meant we should.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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The irresistibleness of things that neither threaten nor jeer nor defy, but arrange themselves in mass-formations that pass and pass and keep on passing.
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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He had not the acumen, the weight, the learning, the logical irresistibleness of Calvin; nor had he the great human sympathies, the touch of earthiness, yet not grossness, which made
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He was to them a force that many times became a terror because of its sheer irresistibleness.
A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang
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If he could get our point of view and let some woman take a hand at him, she might efface his irresistibleness and make a man of him.
From a Girl's Point of View Lilian Bell
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