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Ugliness vs Handsomeness - What's the difference?

ugliness | handsomeness |

As nouns the difference between ugliness and handsomeness

is that ugliness is the condition of being ugly while handsomeness is the quality of being handsome.

ugliness

English

(wikipedia ugliness)

Noun

  • The condition of being ugly
  • * 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
    • His best friend would not have called him good-looking, but he was the fortunate possessor of that cheerful type of ugliness which inspires immediate confidence in its owner.
    Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.
  • An unsightly or frightful object

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    * beauty

    handsomeness

    English

    Noun

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  • The quality of being handsome.
  • * Handsomeness is the mere animal excellence, beauty the mere imaginative. - Hare