sexiness

noun

Definition of sexinessnext
as in seductiveness

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  1. desirability
  2. prettiness
  3. pulchritude
  4. beauty
  5. allure
Noun
  • The company says patrol wages have increased more than 50% over the past four years and pointed to 3,000 applicants for 300 open patrol roles for the 2024-25 season as a data point on desirability of the job.
    Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 5 Jan. 2025
  • All Year Median Sales Price Home prices in popular regions like The Woodlands and Austin housing markets come with higher median sale prices, reflecting their desirability and growth.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025
Definition of desirability
Noun
  • But the backdrops are rendered with an oppressive prettiness that has a perverse cheapening effect.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Often, Eastwood uses the surroundings as a kind of misdirect, indicating through their prettiness that all is right with the world — as in a romantic montage featuring Eastwood and Mills that plays for far longer than its narrative function requires.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of prettiness
Noun
  • In this riotous, satirical comedy, where comic, physical exertion rules the day, why does this scene stand alone in its effective pulchritude?
    David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
  • But the reality remains of one person’s trash being another’s treasure, and while Warhol and Confucius poetically and diplomatically remind us of the beauty to be found in everything, the below are 10 films most impervious to any semblance of pulchritude from this year.
    Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 5 Dec. 2023
Definition of pulchritude
Noun
  • Beyond those losses and many more, historic structures and cultural institutions have fallen, a blow to Southern California’s beauty and cultural identity.
    R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Over the past few years Liberty has been investing in the store and upgrading its fashion and beauty offer.
    Samantha Conti, WWD, 15 Jan. 2025
Definition of beauty
Noun
  • The allure of her newfound status and authority becomes a troublesome prism through which to view an unjust world.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
  • But his time spent in this chic Owings Mills neighborhood adds to the allure of the on-the-market home adjacent to Caves Valley Golf Club.
    Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of allure
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