Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of pleasing, or of being attractive or engaging.
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Examples
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Keep your fingers crossed for upright test-takingness.
Little Things 2006
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Keep your fingers crossed for upright test-takingness.
Little Things 2006
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#42 Steve B., your history of breath-takingness is not one to cause much of an impression on exposure to it now.
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Keep your fingers crossed for upright test-takingness.
June 2006 2006
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The alarming takingness of it had gotten in at his ear, and as he was savagely undressing he caught himself in the traitorous act of humming it to himself.
Aladdin O'Brien Gouverneur Morris 1914
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He is a kind of miracle of good looks and takingness. "
The Head of the House of Coombe Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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