winningness
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]winningness (uncountable)
- The quality or state of being winning.
- 1979, High Fidelity Musical America, volume 29, number 2:
- Taylor tried a jape or two as in a campy hootch number for Linda Kent who, for some prankish reason, made her entrance behind an obliging cabbage; but the whole seemed underchoreographed and overdependent upon the winningness of the dancers.
- 1879, John Morley, Burke:
- Those who insist on charm, on winningness in style, on subtle harmonies and fine exquisiteness of suggestion, are disappointed in Burke