loveliness

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
17
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈlʌvlinəs/

Definition of loveliness

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)The property of being lovely, of attractiveness, beauty, appearing to be lovable.
    “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: / Its loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness; but still will keep / A bower quiet for us, and a sleep / Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.”
    “Then, seated in her barbaric chair above them all, with myself at her feet, was the veiled white woman, whose loveliness and awesome power seemed to visibly shine about her like a halo, or rather like the glow from some unseen light.”
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noun

  1. (uncountable)The property of being lovely, of attractiveness, beauty, appearing to be lovable.
    “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: / Its loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness; but still will keep / A bower quiet for us, and a sleep / Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.”
    “Then, seated in her barbaric chair above them all, with myself at her feet, was the veiled white woman, whose loveliness and awesome power seemed to visibly shine about her like a halo, or rather like the glow from some unseen light.”
  2. (countable)The result of being lovely.
  3. (collective, countable, uncountable)A group of ladybirds.
    “'A loveliness of ladybirds,' whispers Roisin to her sleeping child, and looks at her husband proudly. He grins back. 'Aye, the plague of last summer. Couldn't pick up a glass of lemonade without finding a hundred ladybirds using it as a bubble-bath.'”
    “A loveliness of ladybugs is enjoying lunch - little aphids that pepper a crop of soybeans.”
    “Sparks of sunlight caught on a loveliness of ladybirds that had floated into the waiting room through an open door.”

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Etymology

From Middle English luflynes; equivalent to lovely + -ness.

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