GRACEFULNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gracefulness mean? 

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

1. beautiful carriage

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRACEFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Beautiful carriage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

bearing; carriage; posture (characteristic way of bearing one's body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gracefulness"):

grace; gracility (elegance and beauty of movement or expression)

agility; legerity; lightness; lightsomeness; nimbleness (the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble)

lissomeness; litheness; suppleness (the gracefulness of a person or animal that is flexible and supple)

Antonym:

awkwardness (the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant)

Derivation:

graceful (characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution)

 Context examples 

Her ideal of masculine beauty had always been slender gracefulness.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She came into the room with an easy gracefulness which would at once command the respect of any lunatic—for easiness is one of the qualities mad people most respect.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

His manly beauty and more than common gracefulness were instantly the theme of general admiration, and the laugh which his gallantry raised against Marianne received particular spirit from his exterior attractions.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He had time to note the light, fluffy something that hid her queenly head, the tasteful lines of her wrapped figure, the gracefulness of her carriage and of the hand that caught up her skirts; and then she was gone and he was left staring at the two girls of the cannery, at their tawdry attempts at prettiness of dress, their tragic efforts to be clean and trim, the cheap cloth, the cheap ribbons, and the cheap rings on the fingers.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)