evocativeness
Memory-stirring power
Evocativeness is the quality of calling up images, memories, or emotions.
A photograph might have evocativeness if it transports viewers to another time; a piece of music might possess evocativeness through its ability to stir forgotten feelings.
The word describes the power to evoke rather than state directly: The evocativeness of her prose made readers feel they'd lived in that village themselves.
Longing for the past
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
- sentimentalityExcessive tender emotion
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- wistfulnessTender sadness for absence
poignancy · resonance · stirring · moving · haunting · bittersweet · yearning · tenderness
Indirect reference to something
- connotationImplied sense, not dictionary
- implicationIndirect suggestion or consequence
- intimationIndirect indication of something
- subtextImplicit meaning beneath words
hint · overtone · undertone · nuance · echo · resonance · ambiguity · insinuation
nostalgia
Longing for the past
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
- sentimentalityExcessive tender emotion
- longingIntense, persistent desire
wistfulness · poignancy · resonance · stirring · moving · haunting · bittersweet · yearning · tenderness · pathos
allusion
Indirect reference to something
- connotationImplied sense, not dictionary
- implicationIndirect suggestion or consequence
- intimationIndirect indication of something
subtext · hint · overtone · undertone · nuance · echo · resonance · ambiguity · insinuation · layering
vividness
Intense clarity or lifelikeness
- visualizationForming mental or graphical images
- pictorialRelating to pictures
- graphicVividly detailed or visual
depiction · portrayal · symbolism · metaphor · tableau · panorama · dreamscape · scene · landscape · atmosphere
potency
Degree of strength
- intensityStrength or force level
- expressivenessAbility to convey emotion
- eloquencePersuasive verbal grace
poignancy · immediacy · impact · force · punch · compelling · arresting · striking · visceral · palpable
evocativenessflatness
Absence of slope
blandness · dullness · blankness · lifelessness · vapidity
evocativenessbluntness
Frank, unvarnished manner
literalness · prosaicness · directness · matter-of-factness · explicitness
advocate, vocal, provoke, evoke, revoke, invoke, provocative, vocation, evocative