appreciativeness
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He had suffered from the modern malady of unlimited appreciativeness as much as any living man of his own age.
From A Laodicean : a Story of To-day by Thomas Hardy
The vast waste which this limitation of prospect entails is the most grievous rejection of moral treasure, if it be true that nothing enriches the nature like wide sympathy and many-coloured appreciativeness.
From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle by John Morley
Kendal bad introduced him to her, in a brief encounter at the Salon, and she remembered the appreciativeness of the glance that accompanied the stout middle-aged English gentleman's bow.
From A Daughter of To-Day by Sara Jeannette Duncan
Yet there may be cases in which this ready appreciativeness may prove a hindrance to progress rather than a help.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
A Clinical Work Consultation Experience In this work consultation experience my feelings were openness, reflectiveness, pain, helpfulness, alertness, searchfulness, appreciativeness, receptiveness, responsiveness, wantedness, competence, joy, and importance.
From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson