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cosmesis

cosmesis noun: the preservation, restoration, or bestowing of physical beauty, especially to the human body.

Noun

cosmesis (countable and uncountable, plural cosmeses)

  1. The preservation, restoration, or bestowing of physical beauty, especially to the human body.
  2. The correction of disfigurement, as by surgery or tattooing.
  3. The results of cosmetic procedures or interventions.
  4. A procedure or intervention to improve appearance.
  5. The creation of life-like prosthetic limbs.
  6. A prosthetic limb with life-like appearance.

cosmesis meaning in Tamil

cosmesis in Tamil

அழகூட்டல், எழிலூட்டல்

Forms of cosmesis

pluralcosmeses

Origin of cosmesis

From Ancient Greek κόσμησις (kósmēsis, “an adorning”), from κοσμέω (kosméō, “to order, arrange, adorn”), κόσμος (kósmos, “order”).

Questions about cosmesis

What does cosmesis mean?
Cosmesis means the preservation, restoration, or bestowing of physical beauty, especially to the human body.
What is cosmesis in Tamil?
Cosmesis in Tamil is அழகூட்டல், எழிலூட்டல். See Cosmesis meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cosmesis?
Cosmesis is a noun.
What is the plural of cosmesis?
The plural of cosmesis is cosmeses.

Words near cosmesis in the dictionary

  1. Cosmatesque
  2. cosmeceutical
  3. cosmeceuticals
  4. cosmecology
  5. cosmeses
  6. cosmesis
  7. Cosmeston
  8. cosmet moth
  9. cosmetic
  10. cosmetic dentistry
  11. cosmetic second

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cosmesis (page history and authors); cosmesis (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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