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HANDSOMENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does handsomeness mean?
• HANDSOMENESS (noun)
The noun HANDSOMENESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of having regular well-defined features (especially of a man)
Familiarity information: HANDSOMENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of having regular well-defined features (especially of a man)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
good looks; handsomeness
Hypernyms ("handsomeness" is a kind of...):
beauty (the qualities that give pleasure to the senses)
Derivation:
handsome (pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion)
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