arrestiveness

English

Etymology

arrestive +‎ -ness

Noun

arrestiveness (uncountable)

  1. (dated) The quality of being arrestive.
    Synonym: strikingness
    • 1910, Douglas Sladen, “An Appreciation” in Yoshio Markino, A Japanese Artist in London, London: Chatto & Windus, p. vii,
      […] Mr. Markino in his quaint English has sometimes an arrestiveness almost equal to Thomas Carlyle’s. There is real style in it. He has evolved a grammar of his own which is strikingly effective.
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