expressiveness

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Etymology

Etymology tree

English expressive

Proto-Germanic *-in-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti

Proto-Germanic *-ōną

Proto-Germanic *-inōną

Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-

Proto-Germanic *-atjaną

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Germanic *-þuz

Proto-Germanic *-assuz

Proto-Germanic *-inassuz

Proto-West Germanic *-nassī

Old English -nes

Middle English -nesse

English -ness

English expressiveness

From expressive + -ness.

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Noun

expressiveness (usually uncountable, plural expressivenesses)

1. The quality or degree of being expressive.

   Synonym: expressivity

   Antonym: unexpressiveness

   • 2024 May 20, Alissa Wilkinson, “What We Lose When ChatGPT Sounds Like Scarlett Johansson”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 June 2024:

     And on his blog post about the news, he [Sam Altman] wrote, “It feels like A.I. from the movies; and it’s still a bit surprising to me that it’s real. Getting to human-level response times and expressiveness turns out to be a big change.”

Translations

the quality of being expressive

• Catalan: expressivitat f
• Dutch: zeggingskracht (nl) f, expressiviteit (nl) f
• Finnish: ekspressiivisyys (fi)
• French: expressivité (fr) f
• Galician: expresividade (gl) f
• Georgian: გამომხატველობა (gamomxaṭveloba)
• German: Ausdruckskraft f, Ausdrucksfähigkeit (de) f
• Greek: εκφραστικότητα (el) f (ekfrastikótita)
• Hungarian: expresszivitás (hu), kifejező erő
• Italian: espressività (it) f
• Manx: breeoilid m
• Occitan: expressivitat f
• Polish: ekspresyjność (pl) f
• Portuguese: expressividade (pt) f
• Sicilian: sprissività f
• Spanish: expresividad (es) f