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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[From

Domesticity; care of home.

[Obs.]

“Wifely homeliness.”

Chaucer.

Familiarity; intimacy.

[Obs.]

Chaucer.

Plainness; want of elegance or beauty.

Coarseness; simplicity; want of refinement;

as, the

homeliness

of manners, or language

Addison.

Noun.

[from homely.] Plainness of features; want of beauty. It expresses less than ugliness.

Rudeness; coarseness; as the homeliness of dress or of sentiments.

homeliness ‎(countable and uncountable, plural homelinesses)