Loveliness

Quick meaning: Loveliness is a noun meaning (uncountable) The property of being lovely, of attractiveness, beauty, appearing to be lovable.

Meaning

(uncountable) The property of being lovely, of attractiveness, beauty, appearing to be lovable.

More Meanings

1. (countable) The result of being lovely.
2. (zoology, collective) A group of ladybirds.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Word Forms

• lovelinesses

Synonyms for loveliness

Depending on context, synonyms include fairness, comeliness, beauteousness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include comeliness, beauteousness, fairness, lovableness, lovelihead, beauty.

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