prettiness
- noun
- /ˈprɪtiness/
- Martha saw a tall, angular woman with a halo of blond curls, her crisp, girlish prettiness blurred only slightly by fatigue and middle age.
- prettiness of her face
Fashion is more about a look than prettiness, and fashion really responds to a look.
- Fashion is more about a look than prettiness, and fashion really responds to a look.
- So I'll try to pretend like we are living in total clean and prettiness, but this is the reality.
- Those pixels are just so dense in their color and prettiness.
Examples
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Not at all beautiful, you understand, but you have a certain prettiness.
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But sometimes I have to show the prettiness too because all our lives are lived in some sort of balance.
Blog text (32) -
I am interested in the future, in the prettiness of morning light.
Fiction book (1991) -
Mostly it's the prettiness that puts Michael off.
Fiction book (1997) -
All she had of Mama's prettiness was the same big brown eyes.
Fiction book (1995) -
Despite the prettiness, there was something formal and ponderous in so much visible distance.
Fiction book (1990) -
Thus, commenting on your perception of our prettiness is out of place.
Blog text (10) -
At twenty, I expected thirty to be the end of fun, vitality, adventure, prettiness, and desirability.
Fiction book (1994) -
The doughy Irish features in the snapshot had sharpened into prettiness.
Fiction book (2002) -
The garden was filled with the prettiness of blooming flowers in the spring sunlight.
Synonyms
A combination of qualities like shape and color that pleases the eye
A pleasant quality that makes people like a person or place
An attractive face and appearance people notice
A graceful, stylish way of looking or behaving that shows good taste
The quality that makes people notice and like someone's looks or character
A quality of being very attractive in a sweet, innocent way
A pleasing, beautiful look that makes people admire it
A state of being very beautiful or attractive
A very great beauty shown in delicate detail
Physical beauty that is pleasant to look at
A delicate, pretty quality that shows care and grace
How beautiful something looks
A sense of good style in clothes, design, or manners
How pleasant something looks to people
A way a place or scene looks when it is very attractive like a picture
A charming, innocent quality that makes someone seem friendly
The quality of being attractive and making people want something
Antonyms
How Attractive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Prettiness is built from pretty, which long ago could mean 'clever' but now means 'pleasing', and the ending -ness, which means 'a state or quality'. So prettiness is the 'state of being pleasing to look at'.