[f. as prec. + -NESS.] Attractive quality; aptness to draw to itself.
1673. Phil. Trans., VIII. 6136. The … body will emulate Amber in brightness and the attractiveness of straw.
1684. in Birch, Hist. Royal Soc., IV. 268. Observing the attractiveness of hot iron.
a. 1716. South, Serm., VII. xiv. 293 (T.). The same attractiveness in riches, the same relish in sovereignty.
1869. Seeley, Lect. & Ess., vii. 190. The liveliness and attractiveness which interest boys.
