appreciative
adjective
feeling or showing appreciation.
appreciativeness
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a word derived from
appreciative.
Example Sentences
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He had suffered from the modern malady of unlimited appreciativeness as much as any living man of his own age.
From A Laodicean : a Story of To-day by Thomas Hardy
Yet there may be cases in which this ready appreciativeness may prove a hindrance to progress rather than a help.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
She seemed to take him in, with a benign appreciativeness, in his entirety.
From T. Tembarom by Frances Hodgson Burnett
This fills all his higher work with a generous appreciativeness, a justness of judgment, a tenderness of feeling, which elevate as well as charm the reader.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Even in Gray’s—‘Pindaric Gray’s’—treatment of classical themes, there is a sort of pervading ennui, or the forced appreciativeness of a gouty, disappointed man.
From Proserpine and Midas by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
