[f. prec. + -NESS. The quality of being saggestive.

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1846.  Ruskin, Mod. Paint., II. III. II. iii. § 15. There is not the commonest subject to which he will not attach a range of suggestiveness almost limitless.

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1875.  Whitney, Life Lang., viii. 141. The etymological suggestiveness of a term.

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1880.  H. James, Madonna of Future, 17. Think, above all, of the mother’s face and its ineffable suggestiveness.

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  So Suggestivity. rare.

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1842.  Thackeray, Miss Tickletoby’s Lect. i. Taking down rather the heads and the suggestivity (if we may use the phrase) of Miss Tickletoby’s discourse.

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