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Pic·tur·esque a. Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language.
What is picturesque as placed in relation to the beautiful and the sublime? It is . . . the characteristic pushed into a sensible excess.
--De Quincey.
-- Pic*tur*esque*ly, adv. -- Pic*tur*esque*ness, n.
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picturesqueness
n : visually vivid and pleasing