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Noun: homeliness  hówm-lee-nus
  1. Having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or elegance
    - dowdiness, drabness
     
  2. An appearance that is not attractive or beautiful
    "fine clothes could not conceal the girl's homeliness"
    - plainness

Derived forms: homelinesses

See also: homely

Type of: appearance, inelegance, visual aspect

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