impressivityとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

impressivity (uncountable)

1. (まれに) The quality of being impressive.
   • 1869, The North British Review, volume 51, page 287:

     With him the impressivity of the spirit is all in all; and whatever enhances this impressivity purifies the spirit, because it abases it more completely beneath the Divine Impressor.

   • 1922, The Pedagogical Seminary, volume 29, page 161:

     Over against the masculine expressivity is the feminine impressivity.

   • 1963, Hotel Mamie Stover, page 50:

     The citation that accompanied the Holley Award for combined excellence in athletics and scholastics was in Latin and Colonel Robert Hale Franklin's voice rolled out the phrases with sonorous impressivity that June afternoon when the student body and such parents as could get away gathered on the lawn beside the chapen for graduation exercises.