Coining A Word

I feel that there's a word missing from our vocabulary, and this essay is the culmination of an effort to find such a word, to define it usefully, and to work through some of what it might mean.
Consider these two pictures:
Tree
 
Coffee Shop
The first one I shot specifically to test a camera-clubby sort of online forum's reactions. As predicted, they liked it pretty well (of course there were quibbles). I hate it. It is a stupid picture which, as presented here at any rate, signifies nothing. It "says" nothing about anything, it evokes nothing. There's no story, there's no context, there's no particular feelings it might generate. It's just a sort of vaguely pretty picture with some strong compositional elements.
It is, however, quite pretty. If I believed that pure aesthetics was enough, I'd like the picture pretty well.
The second one is the only successful street photograph I have ever shot. It is rife with "story", it says something about something. About how men look at wome...