attractiveness

English

Etymology

From attractive +‎ -ness.

Noun

attractiveness (countable and uncountable, plural attractivenesses)

1. (uncountable) The state of being attractive or engaging.
   • 1999, David Weber, Echoes of Honor, Baen Publishing Enterprises, →ISBN:

     Given the vivacious young redhead's attractiveness, some might have assumed he had more than simply professional reasons for sheepdogging her career, but they would have been wrong. He'd seen something in her ...

   • 2012, A. J. Oakes, Ornamental Grasses and Grasslike Plants, page 462:

     The plants are equally attractive when different-colored zebrinas are trained on a fan-shaped or rectangular trellis. The rose-colored flowers, of which new ones blossom each morning, add to the attractiveness of this viny, succulent herb.

2. (countable) The result of being attractive.

Synonyms

• attraction
• attractivity

Derived terms

• market attractiveness
• physical attractiveness

Translations

state of being attractive or engaging

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吸引力 (zh) (xīyǐnlì)

• Czech: přitažlivost f
• Dutch: aantrekkelijkheid (nl) f
• Finnish: houkuttelevuus
• French: attractivité (fr) f, attrait (fr) m
• Georgian: ეშხი (ešxi), მომხიბვლელობა (momxibvleloba), მომხიბლაობა (momxiblaoba), მიმზიდველობა (mimzidveloba)
• German: Zugkraft f, Anziehung (de) f, Anziehungskraft (de) f, Attraktivität (de) f
• Japanese: 吸引力 (きゅういんりょく, kyūinryoku)
• Kazakh: сүйкімділік (süikımdılık)
• Korean: 흡인력 (heubillyeok)
• Latin: pulchritūdō f, formōsitās f
• Middle English: semlynesse, semlyhede
• Polish: atrakcyjność (pl) f
• Portuguese: atratividade (pt) f, atrativo (pt) m
• Russian: привлека́тельность (ru) f (privlekátelʹnostʹ)
• Spanish: atractivo (es) m, atractividad f

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “attractiveness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.