glossiness
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈɡlɑːsɪnəs/
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- The glossiness of the magazine cover attracted many readers at the store.
Examples
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She had combed out her hair fully, and it fell in a full cascade over her shoulders and partly down her back, the ebony glossiness contrasting sharply with the pale yellow of her dress.
Fiction book (1990) -
But it's slightly pushed in terms of the glossiness and the translucence.
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The lips feel dry now, so you take this on top and you will actually see kind of a glossiness on your lips.
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And this will add the kind of glossiness to the eyelids, I suppose.
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He acquired a natural glossiness in public.
Fiction book (1998) -
So it almost adds extra glossiness to it, but I think it complements the glossy skin really well.
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Beard glossiness!
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Cardboard thoughts, widow skin surfaces, east walls of glossiness, an approximately deloused angel; we must all laugh.
Academic text (1997) -
The occasions are numerous on which we paged through Femina, Fair Lady, Cosmopolitan, Home Garden, and Car, as if somehow we were going to surround our lives with the glossiness in the magazines.
Fiction book (1990) -
The glossiness of the polished marble floor made the room look elegant.
Synonyms
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4.2
A soft, smooth shine on a surface that looks healthy or attractive
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3.8
A smooth shiny appearance on a surface
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3.7
The state of being smooth and shiny
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2.0
How bright and smooth a surface is when it sends back light
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3.2
A smooth, soft, shiny feeling like silk against the skin
A very shiny smooth surface that reflects light brightly
How much a surface reflects light and looks shiny
A bright shine made when light bounces off a surface
A smooth, shiny surface like silk that feels pleasant to touch
A smooth, shiny surface created by polishing
A smooth, shiny, brittle look or feel like glass
A smooth, shiny look on skin or other surfaces like a candle
Antonyms
How Shiny
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Glossiness comes from the simple word gloss, which means 'shine', plus the ending -ness that makes it a 'quality'. So glossiness is the 'smooth and shiny' quality that makes a car or floor reflect light.