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Princeton's WordNet

  1. prettiness, cutenessnoun

    the quality of being appealing in a delicate or graceful way (of a girl or young woman)

Wiktionary

  1. prettinessnoun

    The quality of being pretty.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Prettinessnoun

    Beauty without dignity; neat elegance without elevation.

    Etymology: from pretty.

    There is goodliness in the bodies of animals, as in the ox, greyhound and stag; or majesty and stateliness, as in the lion, horse, eagle and cock; grave awfulness, as in mastiffs; or elegancy and prettiness, as in lesser dogs and most sort of birds; all which are several modes of beauty. More.

    Those drops of prettiness, scatteringly sprinkled amongst the creatures, were designed to defecate and exalt our conceptions, not to inveigle or detain our passions. Boyle.

Wikipedia

  1. prettiness

    Beauty is commonly described as a feature of objects that makes these objects pleasurable to perceive. Such objects include landscapes, sunsets, humans and works of art. Beauty, together with art and taste, is the main subject of aesthetics, one of the major branches of philosophy. As a positive aesthetic value, it is contrasted with ugliness as its negative counterpart. One difficulty in understanding beauty is because it has both objective and subjective aspects: it is seen as a property of things but also as depending on the emotional response of observers. Because of its subjective side, beauty is said to be "in the eye of the beholder". It has been argued that the ability on the side of the subject needed to perceive and judge beauty, sometimes referred to as the "sense of taste", can be trained and that the verdicts of experts coincide in the long run. This would suggest that the standards of validity of judgments of beauty are intersubjective, i.e. dependent on a group of judges, rather than fully subjective or fully objective. Conceptions of beauty aim to capture what is essential to all beautiful things. Classical conceptions define beauty in terms of the relation between the beautiful object as a whole and its parts: the parts should stand in the right proportion to each other and thus compose an integrated harmonious whole. Hedonist conceptions see a necessary connection between pleasure and beauty, e.g. that for an object to be beautiful is for it to cause disinterested pleasure. Other conceptions include defining beautiful objects in terms of their value, of a loving attitude towards them or of their function.

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  1. prettiness

    Prettiness is the quality or state of being visually attractive or aesthetically pleasing in a delicate or delightful manner. It often refers to characteristics that are generally associated with femininity, youth, or innocence. The terms of what is considered "pretty" can hugely vary among different cultures and individuals. It can apply to human attributes such as physical appearance, gestures, and sounds, or to objects, landscapes, or artistic works.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Prettinessnoun

    the quality or state of being pretty; -- used sometimes in a disparaging sense

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  2. pinsetters

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Prettiness in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Prettiness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Prettiness in a Sentence

  1. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield:

    Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

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