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Definitions for loveliness
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This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word loveliness.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. comeliness, fairness, loveliness, beauteousnessnoun

    the quality of being good looking and attractive

Wiktionary

  1. lovelinessnoun

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

  2. lovelinessnoun

    The result of being lovely.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Lovelinessnoun

    Amiableness; qualities of mind or body that excite love.

    Etymology: from lovely.

    Carrying thus in one person the only two bands of goodwill, loveliness and lovingness. Philip Sidney.

    When I approach
    Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,
    That what she wills to do, or say,
    Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. John Milton, Pa. Lost.

    If there is such a native loveliness in the sex, as to make them victorious when they are in the wrong, how resistless is their power when they are on the side of truth? Addison.

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  1. loveliness

    Loveliness refers to the quality or state of being beautiful, pleasing, or attractive. It can also refer to an inner beauty that comprises good, kind, or admirable characteristics, qualities, or actions. It is often used to describe attributes that evoke feelings of admiration, affection, or aesthetic appreciation.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Lovelinessnoun

    the state or quality of being lovely

  2. Etymology: [From Lovely.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of loveliness in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of loveliness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of loveliness in a Sentence

  1. William E. Channing:

    Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.

  2. Hartley Coleridge:

    She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me Oh then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.

  3. Archibald Mc Leish:

    To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers.

  4. Hartley Coleridge:

    She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me; Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.

  5. Oscar Wilde:

    At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

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