BECOMINGNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does becomingness mean? 

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

1. the quality of being becoming

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BECOMINGNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being becoming

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

decorousness; decorum (propriety in manners and conduct)

Antonym:

unbecomingness (the quality of being unbecoming)

Derivation:

becoming (displaying or setting off to best advantage)

becoming (according with custom or propriety)

 Context examples 

Fanny had not a word to say against its becomingness, and, excepting what remained of her scruples, was exceedingly pleased with an acquisition so very apropos.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)