irresistibleness
English
editEtymology
editFrom irresistible + -ness.
Noun
editirresistibleness (uncountable)
- The quality of being irresistible.
- 1854, Theodor Mommsen, The History of Rome, Book V[1]:
- Once Rome, fully conscious of the irresistibleness of her power by land, had transferred her superiority also to the other element; now the mighty state was powerless at sea and, as it seemed, on the point of also losing its dominion at least over the Asiatic continent.
- 1897, Lilian Bell, From a Girl's Point of View[2]:
- 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.