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STYLISHNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stylishness mean?
• STYLISHNESS (noun)
The noun STYLISHNESS has 1 sense:
1. elegance by virtue of being fashionable
Familiarity information: STYLISHNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Elegance by virtue of being fashionable
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
chic; chichi; chicness; last word; modishness; smartness; stylishness; swank
Hypernyms ("stylishness" is a kind of...):
elegance (a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stylishness"):
dapperness; jauntiness; nattiness; rakishness (stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance)
Derivation:
stylish (being or in accordance with current social fashions)
stylish (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress)
Context examples
Miss Tilney had a good figure, a pretty face, and a very agreeable countenance; and her air, though it had not all the decided pretension, the resolute stylishness of Miss Thorpe's, had more real elegance.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
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