appreciativeness

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She seemed to take him in, with a benign appreciativeness, in his entirety.

From T. Tembarom by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

He had suffered from the modern malady of unlimited appreciativeness as much as any living man of his own age.

From A Laodicean : a Story of To-day by Hardy, Thomas

How many ingenuous boys, lads in the very flush and hey-day of appreciativeness of the epic virtues, have been parsed, declined, and conjugated into an utter detestation of the melodious names of Homer and Virgil!

From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Lamb, Charles

In the gentleman intellectual altruism and moral appreciativeness are large elements.

From Letters from a Father to His Son Entering College by Thwing, Charles Franklin

Nay it may happen that arrangements of lines which would flutter and flurry us on days of quiet appreciativeness, will become in every sense "sympathetic" on days when we ourselves feel fluttered and flurried.

From The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics by Lee, Vernon