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Pronunciation: [ˈɪntɹəstɪŋnəs] (IPA)

Interestingness refers to the quality of being engaging, captivating or thought-provoking. It is a popular topic for writers, scholars, and researchers. Various synonyms can be used to describe interestingness such as engaging, enthralling, captivating, fascinating, absorbing, intriguing, and stimulating. Engaging refers to something that attracts someone's attention and keeps them interested. Enthralling describes something that is captivating and holds one's attention. Captivating means attractive enough to seize someone's attention. Fascinating implies a sense of curiosity and is generating various questions. Absorbing means engaging or engrossing, while intriguing means to arouse someone's curiosity. Stimulating pertains to something that excites and challenges the mind. All these synonyms describe interestingness, making it an exciting and captivating topic for exploration and investigation.

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Usage examples for Interestingness

"All literature," says Mr. Arnold Bennett, in one of his stimulating essays, "is the expression of feeling, of passion, of emotion, caused by a sensation of the interestingness of life.
"The So-called Human Race"
Bert Leston Taylor
They got no answer to this for three weeks, and had given up all hope and come to the depressing conclusion that they must have betrayed their want of intelligence and interestingness right away, when one day a letter came from General Headquarters in France, addressed To Both the Miss Twinklers, and it was a long letter, pages long, from the slightly wounded officer, telling them he had been patched up again and sent back to the front, and their answer to his advertisement had been forwarded to him there, and that he had had heaps of other answers to it, and that the one he had liked best of all was theirs; and that some day he hoped when he was back again, and able to drive himself, to show them how glorious motoring was, if their mother would bring them,-quick motoring in his racing car, sixty miles an hour motoring, flashing through the wonders of the New Forest, where he lived.
"Christopher and Columbus"
Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim
But before naming these "factors of interestingness," may we not also name and discuss briefly some other essentials in the matter of creating and maintaining interest?
"Principles of Teaching"
Adam S. Bennion

Famous quotes with Interestingness

  • so revolutionary in many ways, is nevertheless easily recognizable as the descendant of these [, , and ] three great popular romances. It has their inordinate length (it is certain that , as planned by Tsao, ran to at least a hundred chapters), their lack of faith in the interestingness of the everyday world, leading to the conviction that a realistic story must necessarily be set in a supernatural framework. It has the story-teller's tendency to put far more art into the technique of the individual séance or chapter, than into the construction of the work as a whole. It has the same moralizing tendency; for, as I have said, Chinese fiction is always on the defensive—is always, with an eye on official Puritanism, trying to prove that, like serious and approved literature, it has a "message." In indeed this message is reserved for the later chapters, which Tsao did not live to complete. But we know that the edifying final episodes (for example, Pao-Yu's entry into the Buddhist Church) were part of the author's original plan. But the is unlike all previous Chinese novels in that Tsao, instead of embroidering upon existing legends or histories, describes a group of people wholly unknown to the reader; and stranger innovation still, these people (as Dr. Hu Shih has proved) are the author and his family. All realistic novels are, of course, autobiographical, the writer's knowledge of realities being drawn chiefly from his own experience. But is autobiographical in a more complete sense. Indeed, one even feels that, were it not for the rigid framework imposed by tradition, Tsao might easily have fallen into the error of transcribing with too careful a fidelity the monotonies of actual life. [...] It is in his accounts of dreams that as an imaginative writer Tsao Hsueh-Chin rises to his greatest heights; and it is in these passages that we feel most clearly the symbolic or universal value of his characters—Pao-Yu, the hero, standing for Imagination and Poetry; his father, for all those sordid powers of pedantry and restriction that hamper the artist in his passage through life.
    Cao Xueqin

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