dramaticness
The quality of being dramatic.
Noun
- The quality of being dramatic.
- His novels in the second place are idealistic novels;—because the duties of ordinary life are suppressed in them;—because they owe their dramaticness in general to the conflict between “passion” and “honour” [Cf. Alfred...
- The intensity, dramaticness and fire of her work, made the speaker seem almost as one translated. - 1901 March 24, Daisy Fitzhugh Ayres, “Miss Kinkead as a Lecturer: Mrs. Daisy Fitzhugh Ayres Reviews a Winter Course of...
- “Your majesty—my Devil,” I say, and am more or less thrilled with the dramaticness and the picturesqueness of it all. - 1903 October 25, Mary MacLane, “Mary MacLane Again Meets Her Kind Devil”, in Great Falls Daily...
Origin
Etymology tree Ancient Greek δράω (dráō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós) Ancient Greek δρᾱμᾰτῐκός (drāmătĭkós)lbor. English dramatic Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English dramaticness From...