interestingness
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- noun
- /ˌɪntrəˈstɪŋnəs/
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interesante
- The interestingness of the documentary kept everyone engaged throughout its two-hour length.
It was a pursuit of interestingness that was just unrelenting.
- It was a pursuit of interestingness that was just unrelenting.
Examples
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An algorithm that relates favors, comments, and views ranks photos as more or less "interesting," and in turn, "interestingness" is used to identify which pictures should be highlighted in the area of the site called Explore.
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The second approach focuses on situational interest, such as how the interestingness of a specific text influences performance (Hidi, 1990, 2001).
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And so we would kind of run out of the opportunity to achieve that kind of interestingness in our lives.
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I mean, yeah, it depends on whether or not my sense of interestingness is correct.
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If you create an interesting person here, in our Hubble volume, their interestingness can reflect back to you.
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It was a pursuit of interestingness that was just unrelenting.
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For me, the problem is that in my rabid fury of interestingness, my typing suffers.
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In fact, it's so interesting that I'm going to write you an email on this interesting topic because by doing so I'm infecting you with its exciting and obvious interestingness.
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Say TeX, Excel, HTML, Flash, etc. - all tools of great depth, but this depth is not in the least correlated with "computer science interestingness."
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Let's go a step further; it's not just people who are doing this to build startups, as you've noticed with the Occupy Wall Street movement. We actually have technical folks holding hackathons just to create a little bit of interestingness for the protestors to build software to help them with some of their spare cycles. This stuff encourages me; this encourages me a lot because it means that there is a generation of folks who are so aware of what they can do with technology and largely standing on the shoulders of giants, right?
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Synonyms
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1.0
A feeling of wanting to know more about something
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1.7
A pleasant quality that makes people like a person or place
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2.6
A quality that makes something attractive to many people
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3.4
A very strong interest that makes you pay close attention
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2.1
A quality that makes something interesting to people
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3.2
The quality that makes people notice and like someone's looks or character
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7.9
A lively, exciting quality that makes someone or something stand out
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7.5
A quality that is easy to notice and more important than other things
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3.0
Being very surprising and impressive
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8.2
A pleasant, lively quality that makes talk or ideas interesting
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5.9
The quality that makes people feel admiration or wonder
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6.6
A quality of being clever and well made that people like to use
The quality of being attractive and making people want something
How easy it is for people to pay attention or take part
A lively quality that makes conversation or stories more interesting
A pleasant feeling that makes ideas or remarks lively
A quality that is easy to notice and attracts attention
How easy something is to see or understand
A quality that makes people want something so much they cannot say no
Antonyms
How Interesting
Surface Forms
Morphology
interestingness = interesting (transparent) = interest + ing + ness
Meaning is directly the quality derived from the adjective 'interesting' using the common noun-forming suffix '-ness'.
Etymology
Interestingness comes from interest ('to attract attention') plus -ing ('being') and -ness ('a quality'), so it literally means the 'quality of being interesting'. That's why we use it to talk about how well something holds a person's attention.