arrestiveness

Etymology

From arrestive + -ness.

arrestiveness means The quality of being arrestive. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.

noun

The quality of being arrestive.“1910, Douglas Sladen, “An Appreciation” in Yoshio Markino, A Japanese Artist in London, London: Chatto & Windus, p. vii, […] Mr. Markino in his quaint English has sometimes an arrestiveness almost equal to Thomas Carlyle’s. There is real style in it. He has evolved a grammar of his own which is strikingly effective.”