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LOVELINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does loveliness mean? 

LOVELINESS (noun)
  The noun LOVELINESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being good looking and attractiveplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


LOVELINESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being good looking and attractive

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

beauteousness; comeliness; fairness; loveliness

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

beauty (the qualities that give pleasure to the senses)

Derivation:

lovely (appealing to the emotions as well as the eye)

lovely (lovable especially in a childlike or naive way)


 Context examples 


God! how beautiful she was. Every hour seemed to be enhancing her loveliness.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She looked all loveliness—and what might not be the end of it?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Your portion is unhappily so small that it will in all likelihood undo the effects of your loveliness and amiable qualifications.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Time had altered her since I last beheld her; it had endowed her with loveliness surpassing the beauty of her childish years.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

As if loveliness were not the special prerogative of woman—her legitimate appanage and heritage!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then she played and sang to him, while he gazed with hungry yearning at her, drinking in her loveliness and marvelling that there should not be a hundred suitors listening there and longing for her as he listened and longed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She is loveliness itself.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I cannot say what an impression this made upon me, or how impossible I found it, when I thought of her afterwards, to separate her from this look, and remember her face in its innocent loveliness again.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The loveliness of the day, and of the view, he felt like herself.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

To Jane herself, she exclaimed, there could be no possibility of objection; all loveliness and goodness as she is!—her understanding excellent, her mind improved, and her manners captivating.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)



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