What is another word for suggestiveness?

Pronunciation: [səd͡ʒˈɛstɪvnəs] (IPA)

Suggestiveness can be replaced by several other words depending on the context in which it is used. The words hint, implication and insinuation all have similar meanings to suggestiveness, with each word implying a subtle suggestion rather than an explicit statement. The word connotation can also be used as a synonym for suggestiveness, as it refers to the implied meaning or association of a word or phrase. In some instances, allusion can be a substitute word for suggestiveness, as it refers to an indirect reference or suggestion. Lastly, the word innuendo can also be used to describe suggestiveness, as it refers to a subtle or indirect remark that has a suggestive or derogatory meaning.

What are the hypernyms for Suggestiveness?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Suggestiveness

There is a certain aristocratic serenity about that square, separated, like a big palace yard, from the bustling Corso in front; yet to me there remains, a tradition of my childhood, a sort of grotesque and horrid suggestiveness connected with this peaceful and princely corner of Rome.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
The handle of the door was turned, and Peckover sprang guiltily over as much carpet as he could cover from that interesting take-off, as Gage burst in upon them with a face of suppressed fury which was not diminished by the obvious suggestiveness of the attitudes of the conscious pair.
"A Poached Peerage"
William Magnay
The inner roof, most unlike the sullen red of the exterior, is blazing with various colours, and embroidered with emblems of the mysterious creatures of the sky, winged, yet not utterly afar from human in their suggestiveness.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick

Famous quotes with Suggestiveness

  • Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.
    Václav Havel
  • Being pre-eminently a moralist, he needed a medium that enabled him to illustrate a moral insight as briefly and vividly as possible. Being an artist and sensualist, he needed a medium that was epigrammatic or aphoristic, but allowed him scope for fantasy and for that element of suggestiveness which he considered essential to beauty.
    Michael Hamburger

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