seemliness
seemliness noun: the property of being seemly, appropriateness of conduct or behavior.
Noun
seemliness (countable and uncountable, plural seemlinesses)
- The property of being seemly, appropriateness of conduct or behavior.
- Her black dress, simple to austerity, suggested her bereaved condition, and I was innocently astonished that notwithstanding a real emotion she was able to dress the part she had to play according to her notions of seemliness.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “ch. 10”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- honor, propriety, uprightness, angelicality, angelicalness, angelicity, angelicness, decency, godliness, honesty
- The result or product of being seemly.
seemliness meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
seemliness in Tamil
- வெளிமதிப்பு
seemliness in Urdu
- موزونیت, مناسبت
seemliness in Malayalam
- seemliness, elegance
- അഴക് aḻakŭ
Synonyms of seemliness
- honor
- propriety
- uprightness
- angelicality
- angelicalness
- angelicity
- angelicness
- decency
- godliness
- integrity
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Antonyms
Forms of seemliness
| plural | seemlinesses |
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Origin of seemliness
From Middle English semelynes, semlynesse, equivalent to seemly + -ness.
Questions about seemliness
- What does seemliness mean?
- Seemliness means the property of being seemly, appropriateness of conduct or behavior.
- What is seemliness in Tamil?
- Seemliness in Tamil is வெளிமதிப்பு. See Seemliness meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is seemliness?
- Seemliness is a noun.
- What is the plural of seemliness?
- The plural of seemliness is seemlinesses.
Words near seemliness in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: seemliness (page history and authors); seemliness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); seemliness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); അഴക് (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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