suggestiveness
Hinting at more
Suggestiveness is the quality of hinting at something without stating it directly.
The term often implies sexual undertones: the suggestiveness of her outfit, critics complained about the film's suggestiveness.
But it can describe any indirect evocation: the suggestiveness of the poem's imagery left readers to draw their own conclusions.
Oblique disparaging remark
- insinuationIndirect, usually negative suggestion
- hintIndirect suggestion
- subtextImplicit meaning beneath words
- allusionIndirect reference to something
connotation · intimation · undercurrent · overtone · nuance · inference · double meaning · veiled meaning
Suggestively bold quality
- salaciousnessIndecent sexual character
- lewdnessCrude sexual indecency
- bawdinessIndecent or vulgar quality
- indecencyOffensive or vulgar behavior
off-color · blue humor · naughtiness · impropriety · provocativeness · scandalousness · taboo · explicit
Power to entice
- enticementSomething that attracts
- temptationUrge toward the unwise
- provocationAct that triggers response
- tantalizingTeasingly attractive, frustratingly desirable
teasing · flirtatiousness · coyness · come-hither · invitation · magnetism · titillation · arousal
innuendo
Oblique disparaging remark
- insinuationIndirect, usually negative suggestion
- hintIndirect suggestion
- subtextImplicit meaning beneath words
allusion · connotation · intimation · undercurrent · overtone · nuance · inference · double meaning · veiled meaning · indirectness
raciness
Suggestively bold quality
- salaciousnessIndecent sexual character
- lewdnessCrude sexual indecency
- bawdinessIndecent or vulgar quality
indecency · off-color · blue humor · naughtiness · impropriety · provocativeness · scandalousness · taboo · explicit · X-rated
seductiveness
Power to entice
- enticementSomething that attracts
- temptationUrge toward the unwise
- provocationAct that triggers response
tantalizing · teasing · flirtatiousness · coyness · come-hither · invitation · magnetism · titillation · arousal · sensuality
- aesthetic qualitieselegance, beauty, brilliance, charm, sublime
- allureattraction, attract, magnetism, charisma, attractiveness
- tensiontautness, tightness, strain, stiffness, rigidity
- objectificationsexualization, objectification, dehumanization, commodification, male gaze
suggestivenessexplicitness
Quality of being unambiguous
directness · overtness · bluntness · forthrightness · plainness
suggestivenessmodesty
Absence of vanity
chasteness · innocence · wholesomeness · propriety · decency
suggest, suggestion, suggested, suggesting, suggestive, suggestions, suggestible, suggestively, suggestibility