homeliness
homeliness noun: the property of being homely.
Noun
homeliness (countable and uncountable, plural homelinesses)
- The property of being homely.
- The quality associated with home; domesticity.
- How many familiar faces, rejoicing in our joy, sorrowing with our sorrow—how many cares, pleasant from habit—sickness, whose suffering gave a tenderer character to love—mirth, the mirth of the cheerful hearth or the daily meal—mirth, like home-made bread, sweeter from its very homeliness—...1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 209–210
homeliness meaning in Tamil and Malayalam
homeliness in Tamil
- குடும்பப்பாங்குடைமை
homeliness in Malayalam
- homeliness
- ഗൃഹാതുരത്വം gr̥hāturatvaṁ
Forms of homeliness
| plural | homelinesses |
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Origin of homeliness
From Middle English homlynesse, homelynesse, hamelynes, equivalent to homely + -ness.
Questions about homeliness
- What does homeliness mean?
- Homeliness means the property of being homely.
- What is homeliness in Tamil?
- Homeliness in Tamil is குடும்பப்பாங்குடைமை. See Homeliness meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is homeliness?
- Homeliness is a noun.
- What is the plural of homeliness?
- The plural of homeliness is homelinesses.
Words near homeliness in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: homeliness (page history and authors); homeliness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ഗൃഹാതുരത്വം (Malayalam) (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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