Comeliness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Comeliness \Come"li*ness\, n. [See {Comely}.]
     The quality or state of being comely.
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           Comeliness is a disposing fair
           Of things and actions in fit time and place. --Sir J.


                                                    Davies.
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           Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit.
                                                    --Milton.
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           Comeliness signifies something less forcible than
           beauty, less elegant than grace, and less light than
           prettiness.                              --Johnson.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  comeliness
       n : the quality of being good looking and attractive [syn: {fairness},
            {loveliness}, {beauteousness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  56 Moby Thesaurus words for "comeliness":
     Atticism, agreeability, agreeableness, appropriateness,
     becomingness, bonniness, chasteness, chastity, clarity,
     classicalism, classicism, clearness, correctness, dignity,
     directness, discrimination, distinction, ease, elegance, elegancy,
     fairness, felicitousness, felicity, finish, fittingness, flow,
     flowing periods, fluency, good taste, goodliness, grace,
     gracefulness, gracility, limpidity, lucidity, naturalness,
     neatness, pellucidity, personableness, perspicuity, plainness,
     pleasingness, polish, propriety, purity, refinement, restraint,
     seemliness, sightliness, simplicity, smoothness,
     straightforwardness, taste, tastefulness, terseness,
     unaffectedness