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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Homeliness \Home"li*ness\, n. [From {Homely}.] 1. Domesticity; care of home. [Obs.] ``Wifely homeliness.'' --Chaucer. 2. Familiarity; intimacy. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 3. Plainness; want of elegance or beauty. 4. Coarseness; simplicity; want of refinement; as the homeliness of manners, or language. --Addison. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: homeliness n 1: lacking stylishness or neatness [syn: {dowdiness}, {drabness}] 2: an appearance that is not attractive or beautiful; "fine clothes could not conceal the girl's homeliness" [syn: {plainness}]
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