seductiveness

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English

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Etymology

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From seductive +‎ -ness.

Noun

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seductiveness (uncountable)

  1. The property of being seductive
    Her seductiveness came from her apparent innocence.
    • 1990 January 26, Peter B. Flint, “Ava Gardner Is Dead at 67; Often Played Femme Fatale”, in The New York Times[1]:
      She brought a tigresslike seductiveness and a husky-voiced irreverence to roles as worldly, devil-may-care women, becoming adept at playing exotic vamps and free-spirited protagonists, []

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