Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being memorable.
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- noun
memorability
Etymologies
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Examples
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"With Vashti, I aspire to have the same kind of memorableness that her songs have," explains Cabic.
The Athens NEWS :: Athens, Ohio's only locally-owned newspaper :: Home Josh Antonuccio 2010
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I think it is just the memorableness of the thing.
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“The memorableness of the thing makes it pause that way.”
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But I think lilrabbi is onto something with the “memorableness”.
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More important, "liar" has no rhetorical memorableness in it, like Slick Sarah or make-believe maverick.
Joseph Romm: Rebranding Slick Sarah, the Make-Believe Maverick 2008
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And unless history achieves the vividness and memorableness of myth, it will not be very useful to shared culture.
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The truth is, the memorableness of the writings of a man of genius becomes a part of their delight.
The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914
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The memorableness of the achievement, that it is such as will be known and talked of hereafter.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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Of the memorableness of it: It is a night to be much observed, v. 42.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721
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It's an excellent sign of the memorableness of a character if, almost two decades after we last saw him, we can remember his little idiosyncracies: the carrot-eating, the terse questioning, the affectionate faux-contempt towards the goofy sidekick.
thecookscottage 2009
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