arrestiveness

== English == === Etymology === From arrestive +‎ -ness. === Noun === arrestiveness (uncountable) (dated) The quality of being arrestive. Synonym: strikingness 1910, Douglas Sladen, “An Appreciation” in Yoshio Markino, A Japanese Artist in London, London: Chatto & Windus, p. vii,[1] […] 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.