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irresistibleness

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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • 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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irresistible +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • If this be so, fancy the irresistibleness of that might, to which the most impalpable and destructive of all elements contributes.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • 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

  • 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

  • We get just the idea of the irresistibleness of God which David meant we should.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • 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

  • 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

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Various

  • He was to them a force that many times became a terror because of its sheer irresistibleness.

    A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang

  • 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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