Definition of Gracefulness

1. Noun. Beautiful carriage.

Generic synonyms: Bearing, Carriage, Posture
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

grac't
grace-cup
grace and favour
grace cup
grace note
grace notes
grace of God
grace period
graced
graceful
gracefull
gracefuller
gracefullest
gracefully
gracefulness
gracefulnesses
graceless
gracelessly
gracelessness
gracelessnesses
graces
gracias
gracilariid
gracilariid moth
gracile
gracile fasciculus
gracile habitus
gracile lobule
gracile nucleus

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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