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HOME | Definition of homeliness (HOMELINESS, Homeliness)

    Homeliness \Home"li*ness\, n. [From Homely.]
    1. Domesticity; care of home. [Obs.] "Wifely homeliness."
    --Chaucer.
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    2. Familiarity; intimacy. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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    3. Plainness; want of elegance or beauty.
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    4. Coarseness; simplicity; want of refinement; as, the
    homeliness of manners, or language. --Addison.
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    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    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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