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becomingness

noun

Etymology

From becoming (“suitable, fit”) + -ness.

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being becoming (pleasingly suitable).

    • There would have been little becomingness in his hastening after her and his Lordship of Dunstanwolde; his court to her must be paid with grace and considerateness.
    • 1924, O. Douglas (pseudonym of Anna Masterton Buchan), Pink Sugar, London: Hodder & Stoughton, Chapter 22, The becomingness of Kirsty’s clothes did nothing to soften Rebecca’s feelings towards her.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA