See Also: prettiness(dictionary)

prettiness (iou)



prettiness noun. M16.
[from PRETTY adjective & noun + -NESS.]
Beauty of a delicate, dainty, or diminutive kind, without stateliness. M16.
Aldous Huxley The prettiness, the cosy sublimities of the Lake District.
Pleasantness, agreeableness. E-M17.
A thing which is pretty; a pretty act, feature, ornament, etc. M17.
Affected or trivial beauty of expression or style in literature, art, etc. Also, an instance of this, a prettyism. M17.
G. B. Shaw I was in no humour to be consoled by elaborate prettinesses from harp and English horn.