Hypertext Webster Gateway: "homeliness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Homeliness \Home"li*ness\, n. [From {Homely}.]
1. Domesticity; care of home. [Obs.] ``Wifely homeliness.''
--Chaucer.
2. Familiarity; intimacy. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
3. Plainness; want of elegance or beauty.
4. Coarseness; simplicity; want of refinement; as, the
homeliness of manners, or language. --Addison.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
homeliness
n 1: lacking stylishness or neatness [syn: {dowdiness}, {drabness}]
2: an appearance that is not attractive or beautiful; "fine
clothes could not conceal the girl's homeliness" [syn: {plainness}]
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