paintingness

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English

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Etymology

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From painting +‎ -ness.

Noun

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paintingness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being painterly.
    • 1843, J. W. Robberds, A memoir of the life and writings of the late William Taylor, page 374:
      One cannot enough praise the expression and paintingness of the style, that realization to the mind of the thing described, that lyric plasticity of manner and sympathetic metamorphosis of diction, []
  2. The property of being a painting.
    • 1999, Carol Mavor, Lady Clementina Hawarden, Becoming: The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden, page 88:
      Vermeer is also a great lover of the picture within a picture, a motif that insists that the viewer confront the paintingness of painting.