sightfulness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]sightfulness (uncountable)
- The state of being sightful; perspicuity.
- 1580, Sir Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia[1]:
- Let us not wink through void of purest sightfulness
- 2001, Peter Fritzsche, Specters of History: On Nostalgia, Exile, and Modernity[2]:
- It makes sense, then, to reconsider nostalgia not as blindness but as sightfulness
References
[edit]“sightfulness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.