fineness
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5.3
- noun
- /ˈfaɪn.nəs/
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finesa
- I love the color, I like the fineness, fine texture of it.
- fineness of fiber
- fineness and strength
Examples
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"I devote the entire first day to a discussion of fineness."
Blog text (21) -
The fragility of crystal is not a weakness but a fineness.
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But what really got me here was the fineness of the image.
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Look at the fineness of the lines.
Fiction book (1990) -
He is awake enough now to appreciate the fineness of her body.
Fiction book (1990) -
There was a fineness about her face: high cheekbones, a small but somehow not disappointing nose, good teeth, a winning smile.
Fiction book (2001) -
Her face was in half profile, highlighting the fineness of her features: the high cheekbones, the firm chin, the softness of her lips.
Fiction book (1990) -
The poetics of her gesture and the fineness of her line illuminate this urgency, these fragile yet tenacious.
Blog text (7) -
Most of what we hold praiseworthy in moral fineness, intellectual achievement, and artistic excellence is due to the nourishment of the bourgeois spirit.
Academic text (1995) -
The fineness of the fabric made the dress look elegant and luxurious.
Synonyms
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3.9
How clear and detailed an image or screen looks
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5.3
A soft, gentle beauty in small or carefully made things
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7.1
A very great beauty shown in delicate detail
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6.8
A delicate, pretty quality that shows care and grace
A fine, fragile quality in objects like porcelain and flower petals
A surface made of very small, closely packed grains that feels smooth
Careful attention to very small details
Antonyms
How Fine
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fineness comes from fine, a word that originally meant 'delicate' or 'thin' and appears in words like refine and finish that are about making something complete or neat. So, fineness is the quality of being delicate, detailed, or refined.