sexiness

English

Etymology

sexy +‎ -ness

Noun

sexiness (usually uncountable, plural sexinesses)

  1. The state or quality of being sexy, of possessing the traits of sexual appeal.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 165:
      What we now encounter in the male order of civilization is "sexiness," the erotic power of the beautiful woman to lure the powerful man to his own destruction.

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