Appealingness
evoking or attracting interest, desire, curiosity, sympathy, or the like; attractive.
historical examples
his appealingness had for the instant soothed that angry devil in her.
rose macleod alice brown
adjective
attractive or pleasing
mid-15c. as a noun, “action of pet-tioning a higher court or authority,” verbal noun from appeal (v.). adjectival sense of “attractive” attested by 1892. related: appealingly.
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to come into sight; become visible: a man suddenly appeared in the doorway. to have the of being; seem; look: to appear wise. to be obvious or easily perceived; be clear or made clear by evidence: it appears to me that you are right. to come or be placed before the public; be published: her […]
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act the part of in public, usually alluding to a performance on stage. for example, she got wonderful reviews when she appeared as portia. this idiom uses appear in the sense of “to come before the public,” a usage dating from the late 1500s.
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- Appearances
the act or fact of , as to the eye or mind or before the public: the unannounced appearance of dinner guests; the last appearance of caruso in aïda; her first appearance at a stockholders’ meeting. the state, condition, manner, or style in which a person or object ; outward look or aspect: a table […]