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Definition of Rosiness
1. Noun. A rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health.
Generic synonyms: Good Health, Healthiness
Derivative terms: Flush, Rosy
2. Noun. A healthy reddish complexion.
Generic synonyms: Complexion, Skin Color, Skin Colour
Derivative terms: Rosy, Ruddy, Ruddy
3. Noun. A dusty pink color.
Generic synonyms: Pink
Specialized synonyms: Old Rose
Derivative terms: Rosy, Rosy
Definition of Rosiness
1. n. The quality of being rosy.
Definition of Rosiness
1. Noun. The quality of being rosy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rosiness
1. the state of being rosy [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rosiness
Literary usage of Rosiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sketches of Debate in the First Senate of the United States, in 1789-90-91 by William Maclay, George Washington Harris (1880)
"His complexion was exceedingly fair, and varying from this only by the almost
feminine rosiness of his cheeks. His might be considered, as to figure and ..."
2. Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and by Abraham Hayward (1873)
"... to preserve their rosiness ; and she was by no means chary in exhibiting them.
On ceremonial occasions, a page entered with a cushion of dark velvet, ..."
3. Recent British Philosophy: Including Some Comments on Mr. Mill's Answer to by David Masson (1877)
"Is not the rosiness of the rose as lovely, hangs not the lily as whitely graceful,
... As if, forsooth, the full rosiness even of this rose of roses, ..."
4. Frontier Army Sketches by James William Steele (1883)
"She is "green," constrained, and often awkward; but her face is not more coarse,
or more incapable of that surging rosiness that is the tat- ..."
5. A new dictionary of the English language by Charles Richardson (1839)
"To Mush more than ; to exceed in redness or rosiness, in colouring, ... with redness
or rosiness. OUT-BOUND,* ad. Bound out or outwards ; bound or obliged, ..."
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