Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of attracting affection; lovable character. Also loveableness.

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

  • noun The property that makes someone or something lovable.

Etymologies

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lovable +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • She was all lovable, and what she thought had nothing to do with her lovableness.

    Chapter 13 2010

  • And any dog would have decided that there was no love nor lovableness in the god behind the voice, nothing to warm one's heart nor to adore.

    CHAPTER XXIV 2010

  • Express your honest recognition of their lovableness, your authentic appreciation and caring for them.

    Rachael Freed: Legacy Writing: Expressing Love Rachael Freed 2012

  • Express your honest recognition of their lovableness, your authentic appreciation and caring for them.

    Rachael Freed: Legacy Writing: Expressing Love Rachael Freed 2012

  • Express your honest recognition of their lovableness, your authentic appreciation and caring for them.

    Rachael Freed: Legacy Writing: Expressing Love Rachael Freed 2012

  • Nature also makes helpless babies cute, so their lovableness armors them by aligning them with protectors.

    Culture Imitates Nature (I Hope) 2009

  • It is another quality, though, that I cherish above the ones that make me smile at his lovableness: For such a little one, he seems to have an unusual connection with God.

    God Talk Belinda 2009

  • But Giuliani has been very effective and the public may want that more than personable lovableness. ''

    City Slickers 2008

  • So alert and alive and with that lovableness that almost hurts one.

    Kangaroo 2004

  • But the true majesty of the single soul which has all its own weaknesses, but its strength in spite of them, its own lovableness, as well as its might and dread.

    Kangaroo 2004

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