sightfulness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

sightful +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

sightfulness (uncountable)

  1. 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.

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