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Definition of Gracefulness
1. Noun. Beautiful carriage.
Specialized synonyms: Grace, Gracility, Agility, Legerity, Lightness, Lightsomeness, Nimbleness, Lissomeness, Litheness, Suppleness
Antonyms: Awkwardness
Derivative terms: Graceful
Definition of Gracefulness
1. Noun. The state of being graceful ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gracefulness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gracefulness
Literary usage of Gracefulness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The æsthetic Attitude by Herbert Sidney Langfeld (1920)
"gracefulness A very evident example of empathy is that of the perception of
gracefulness in objects. A graceful motion, as Spencer correctly explained, ..."
2. Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric: A Series of Practial Lessons on by George Payn Quackenbos (1874)
"gracefulness.—In the effect it produces on the mind, gracefulness is analogous to
... To what, chiefly, doea gracefulness belong ? What does it require ? ..."
3. Essays, Scientific, Political, and Speculative by Herbert Spencer (1891)
"gracefulness. [First published in The Leader for December 25, 1852.] WE do not
ascribe gracefulness to cart-horses, ..."
4. Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric: A Series of Practical Lessons by George Payn Quackenbos, John Duncan Quackenbos, Schuyler Otis Bland (1889)
"the effect it produces on the mind, gracefulness is analogous to ... To what,
chiefly, does gracefulness belong ? What does it require ? ..."
5. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"gracefulness WE do not ascribe gracefulness to cart-horses, tortoises, and
hippopotami, in all of which the powers of movement are relatively inferior; ..."
6. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"Indeed, the laughter became .her person so well that her opinion of its gracefulness
was often shared by others ; and it even entered into her uncle's ..."
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