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prettiness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun prettiness has 1 sense
- prettiness(n = noun.attribute) cuteness - the quality of being appealing in a delicate or graceful way (of a girl or young woman); Array is a kind of beauty
Derived form adjective pretty1
CIDE DICTIONARY
prettiness, n.
The quality or state of being pretty; -- used sometimes in a disparaging sense. [1913 Webster]
"A style . . . without sententious pretension or antithetical prettiness."
[1913 Webster]
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