appreciative
adjective
feeling or showing appreciation.
appreciativeness
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a word derived from
appreciative.
Example Sentences
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The young man gazed with a free smile, the expression of critical appreciativeness.
From A Life's Morning by George Gissing
How many ingenuous boys, lads in the very flush and hey-day of appreciativeness of the epic virtues, have been parsed, declined, and conjugated into an utter detestation of the melodious names of Homer and Virgil!
From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb
A Clinical Work Consultation Experience In this work consultation experience my feelings were openness, reflectiveness, pain, helpfulness, alertness, searchfulness, appreciativeness, receptiveness, responsiveness, wantedness, competence, joy, and importance.
From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson
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
The vast waste which this limitation of prospect entails is the most grievous rejection of moral treasure, if it be true that nothing enriches the nature like wide sympathy and many-coloured appreciativeness.
From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle by John Morley
