handsomeness

English

Etymology

From handsome +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhænsəmnəs/

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Noun

handsomeness (countable and uncountable, plural handsomenesses)

1. The quality of being handsome.
   • 1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers:

     Handsomeness […] is the mere animal excellence, […] beauty […] the mere imaginative.

   • 2009, Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters’ Street, Vintage (2010), page 173:

     His face looked like worn leather but retained the vestiges of an earlier handsomeness that reminded her of a Hollywood star.

Derived terms

• unhandsomeness

Translations

quality of being handsome

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 帥氣 / 帅气 (zh) (shuàiqi), 英俊 (zh) (yīngjùn), 俊俏 (zh) (jùnqiào), 漂亮 (zh) (piàoliang)

• Finnish: komeus (fi)
• German: Schönheit (de) f
• Indonesian: ketampanan
• Polish: przystojność (pl) f
• Spanish: guapura f, apostura f
• Swedish: stilighet (sv) c
• Thai: ความหล่อ (th) (kwaam-lɔ̀ɔ)