paintingness

English

Etymology

painting +‎ -ness

Noun

paintingness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being painterly.
   • 1843, J. W. Robberds, A memoir of the life and writings of the late William Taylor, page 374:

     One cannot enough praise the expression and paintingness of the style, that realization to the mind of the thing described, that lyric plasticity of manner and sympathetic metamorphosis of diction, […]

2. The property of being a painting.
   • 1999, Carol Mavor, Lady Clementina Hawarden, Becoming: The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden, page 88:

     Vermeer is also a great lover of the picture within a picture, a motif that insists that the viewer confront the paintingness of painting.