noun
Meaning 1
The quality of being arrestive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, uncountable
Examples
- 1910, Douglas Sladen, “An Appreciation” in Yoshio Markino, A Japanese Artist in London, London: Chatto & Windus, p. vii, [...] Mr. Markino in his quaint English has sometimes an arrestiveness almost equal to Thomas Carlyle’s. There is real style in it. He has evolved a grammar of his own which is strikingly effective.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: strikingness
Antonyms: none provided