Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as graphicalness.

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

  • noun The quality or state of being graphic.

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

  • noun The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness

Etymologies

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graphic +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Cianfrance's bad luck is that the sex scenes in Blue Valentine -- which capture how Dean's and Cindy's marriage has gone bad -- have generated enormous publicity for their graphicness and have not helped the picture draw an audience.

    Nicolaus Mills: Blue Valentine's Sexual Politics Nicolaus Mills 2011

  • Cianfrance's bad luck is that the sex scenes in Blue Valentine -- which capture how Dean's and Cindy's marriage has gone bad -- have generated enormous publicity for their graphicness and have not helped the picture draw an audience.

    Nicolaus Mills: Blue Valentine's Sexual Politics Nicolaus Mills 2011

  • I was browsing the Internet one nightallowing links to carry me farther and farther from the news sites I normally visitand was shocked by the breadth and graphicness of the images I quite unintentionally came across.

    A Conversation with Jonathan Safran Foer about Everything Is Illuminated 2010

  • Ken Redtail well, fortunately, we've seen huge smash hits like 300 and Kill Bill, so we know the violence and the graphicness of it would be something tolerable.

    Warner Bros Developing Live Action Ninja Scroll Movie | /Film 2008

  • They were adult in their ideas, not in their graphicness.

    How admirable! Oh…wait… arhyalon 2008

  • They were adult in their ideas, not in their graphicness.

    MIND MELD: Is Young Adult SF/F Too Explicit? 2008

  • For each type checked above also indicate level of vividness/graphicness using the following as a general guide:

    Boing Boing: July 10, 2005 - July 16, 2005 Archives 2005

  • This is somewhat confronting not just because of the graphicness, but because it forces the viewer to consider that mentally disabled people are sexual beings, just like the rest of us.

    Archive 2005-04-01 2005

  • This is somewhat confronting not just because of the graphicness, but because it forces the viewer to consider that mentally disabled people are sexual beings, just like the rest of us.

    munkey's eye view: DOGMA #2 ~ THE IDIOTS 2005

  • It had much excited me, in its style, beauty and graphicness, and in its simple, unquestioned, unevasive public representation, albeit in a political and commemorative context, of natural biological relationships.

    Dancer Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1986

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