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penetrativeness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Penetrating quality or power.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being penetrative.

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

  • noun The quality of being penetrative.

Etymologies

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penetrative +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • The good penetrativeness of the solution, even into the dense autumn wood tissues, brings about a positive structural image:

    2. Pretreatment Processes 1993

  • "But my eyesight," I asked, "how do you account for its unusual penetrativeness?"

    Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch Mary E. Bradley Lane

  • Their delicacy, their vigor, their penetrativeness, their unlikeness to those called for on the material plane, show the contrast of the earth-life to the spirit-life.

    Reincarnation and the Law of Karma A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause and Effect William Walker Atkinson 1897

  • It was the dark, bearded face, the jetty eyes, and above all, I think, the voice, with its clear, carrying quality, combining penetrativeness with

    Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic Herbert Quick 1893

  • Her gathered knowledge of things and her ruthless penetrativeness made it sometimes hard for her to be tolerant of a world, whose tolerance of the infinitely evil stamped blotches on its face and shrieked in stains across the skin beneath its gallant garb.

    One of Our Conquerors — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868

  • Her gathered knowledge of things and her ruthless penetrativeness made it sometimes hard for her to be tolerant of a world, whose tolerance of the infinitely evil stamped blotches on its face and shrieked in stains across the skin beneath its gallant garb.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Her gathered knowledge of things and her ruthless penetrativeness made it sometimes hard for her to be tolerant of a world, whose tolerance of the infinitely evil stamped blotches on its face and shrieked in stains across the skin beneath its gallant garb.

    One of Our Conquerors — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • For so there are many men who know what sort of creatures use to be generated out of certain herbs, meats, juices and humours, bruised and mingled together in a certain fashion; save only that it is harder for men to do these things, inasmuch as they lack that subtlety of sense, and penetrativeness of body in their limbs dull and of earthly mould.

    Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew 1225?-1274 1842

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