sightfulness

English

Etymology

sightful +‎ -ness

Noun

sightfulness (uncountable)

  1. The state of being sightful; perspicuity.
    • 1580, Sir Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia‎:
      Let us not wink through void of purest sightfulness
    • 2001, Peter Fritzsche, Specters of History: On Nostalgia, Exile, and Modernity‎:
      It makes sense, then, to reconsider nostalgia not as blindness but as sightfulness

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sightfulness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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