COMELINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does comeliness mean? 

• COMELINESS (noun)
  The noun COMELINESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being good looking and attractive

  Familiarity information: COMELINESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMELINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being good looking and attractive

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

beauteousness; comeliness; fairness; loveliness

Hypernyms ("comeliness" is a kind of...):

beauty (the qualities that give pleasure to the senses)

Derivation:

comely (very pleasing to the eye)

 Context examples 

He had pitched, as I have said, against the bulwarks, where he lay like some horrible, ungainly sort of puppet, life-size, indeed, but how different from life's colour or life's comeliness!

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I admired the strength, comeliness, and speed of the inhabitants; and such a constellation of virtues, in such amiable persons, produced in me the highest veneration.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A strangely opposed pair they appeared as they approached each other: Tranter dark and stout and stiff, with hairy chest and corded arms, Alleyne a model of comeliness and grace, with his golden hair and his skin as fair as a woman's.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But, dear heart, we all have our little weaknesses, and find it easy to pardon such in the young, who satisfy our eyes with their comeliness, and keep our hearts merry with their artless vanities.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Strength is chiefly valued in the male, and comeliness in the female; not upon the account of love, but to preserve the race from degenerating; for where a female happens to excel in strength, a consort is chosen, with regard to comeliness.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)