amorousness
- a word derived from amorous.
Example Sentences
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He planned to have park-users sign a pledge, reading: "I will refrain from any action, posture or public display of amorousness that might be offensive to others or could set a bad example to children."
From Time Magazine Archive
What the gods give they possibly conceal, for the average reader will not notice a superfluity of either amorousness or strength in Tony's character.
From Time Magazine Archive
It has Italian color in spots—Schumann said that, melodically, Chopin sometimes "leans over Germany into Italy"—and is a masterly one in sentiment, pulsating with amorousness.
From Chopin : the Man and His Music by Huneker, James
But not only in this basic emotion is Verhaeren sundered from all those other poets who fashion their verses from sadness, sickly longing, amorousness, and melancholy.
From ?mile Verhaeren by Zweig, Stefan
Romance, in American fiction, still means only a somewhat childish amorousness and sentimentality—the love affairs of Paul and Virginia, or the pale adulteries of their elders.
From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
