Sentence examples for amativeness from inspiring English sources
The word "amativeness" is a correct and usable word in written English
It is a noun and refers to the trait or quality of being amative, which means loving, passionate, or affectionate. For example, "The amativeness of John and Mary's relationship was undeniable—they were madly in love with one another."
noun
The state or quality of being amative; propensity to love or sexual feelings.
It seems barely credible that Victorians once flocked in droves to private Bloomsbury consulting rooms to have costly quacks with delicate fingers probe the surface of their heads looking for bumps and depressions indicating the relative strength of such qualities as benevolence, veneration and firmness, or to assay how much "amativeness" — sexual desire — might lie untapped within your skull.
(A large cerebellum meant excess "amativeness"; Isabella's cerebellum was very large indeed).
John Cheever, who throughout his long career displayed a lovable penchant for words that might otherwise fail to secure even part-time employment (how many novelists today would straight-facedly try to sneak "amativeness" past their readers?), employed "puissant" a few times in his fiction.
"Leaves" went through eight more editions in Whitman's lifetime, eventually growing to more than 400 pages and encompassing 293 poems, including the ones about "amativeness," which got the author in so much trouble with the prigs and censors.
/ That I could forget the trickling tears and the blows of the bludgeons and hammers!" We read about the semiscientific (i.e., crackpot) ideas of the phrenologists, with their skull-bump theory of the human personality and its qualities of "amativeness" and "adhesiveness," and about the mesmerists, with their notion of electrical fluids exercising attraction between people.
