Definition of Effusiveness

1. Noun. A friendly open trait of a talkative person.

Exact synonyms: Expansiveness, Expansivity
Generic synonyms: Communicativeness
Derivative terms: Effusive, Expansive, Expansive

Definition of Effusiveness

1. Noun. The state of being effusive. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Effusiveness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Effusiveness

effuming
effund
effunded
effunding
effunds
effuse
effused
effuses
effusing
effusiometer
effusiometers
effusion
effusions
effusive
effusively
effusiveness (current term)
effusivenesses
eflornithine
eflornithine hydrochloride
eformoterol
efreet
efreets
efremovite
efs
eft
eftest
efts
eftsones
eftsoon
eftsoons

Literary usage of Effusiveness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"The Continental is almost as much repelled as the Englishman by the effusiveness of some Americans. Steeped in family solidarity, he does not in the least ..."

2. A Dictionary of the Welsh Language: Explained in English; with Numerous by William Owen Pughe (1832)
"... -effusiveness, a tendency to break out. ... effusiveness ; a state of springing or breaking out. ..."

3. Some Reminiscences of William Michael Rossetti by William Michael Rossetti (1906)
"Tennyson gave me the sort of welcome I best appreciate—simple and kindly, without any effusiveness. He expressed himself with the same sort of manly ..."

4. Oliver Cromwell: The Man and His Mission by James Allanson Picton (1889)
"But in Cromwell's case it is probable that this effusiveness was the forced outlet of an excitement that stirred the old morbid elements of hypochondria. ..."

5. Yale Lectures on Preaching: And Other Writings by Nathaniel Judson Burton (1888)
"And for effusiveness in the pulpit, too. He must preach tenderly, yearningly and all that. He must have a tone in his voice that can reach clear to the ..."

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