PRETTINESS

prettiness, cuteness

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

prettiness (countable and uncountable, plural prettinesses)

The quality of being pretty.

Anagrams

• persistent, pinsetters, presentist, serpentist

Source: Wiktionary


Pret"ti*ness, n.

Definition: The quality or state of being pretty; -- used sometimes in a disparaging sense. A style . . . without sententious pretension or antithetical prettiness. Jeffrey.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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RESTITUTION

(noun) getting something back again; “upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing”


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