ugliness

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Noun

ugliness (countable and uncountable; plural uglinesses)

1. 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. Sharon Tate

2. An unsightly or frightful object

Related terms

• ugly

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:ugliness

Antonyms

• beauty

Translations

condition of being ugly

• Asturian: feúra (ast) f
• Catalan: lletgesa (ca) f, lletjor (ca) f
• Czech: ošklivost (cs) f
• Esperanto: malbeleco (eo)
• Finnish: rumuus (fi)
• French: laideur (fr) f
• Galician: fealdade (gl) f
• Italian: bruttezza (it) f
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ناشرینی

• Latin: dēfōrmitās (la) f
• Latvian: neglītums (lv) m
• Persian: زشتی (fa), قبح (fa)
• Polish: brzydota (pl) f
• Portuguese: feiura (pt) f, fealdade (pt) f
• Russian: уро́дство (ru) (uródstvo) n
• Spanish: fealdad (es) f
• Turkish: çirkinlik (tr)

unsightly or frightful object

• Esperanto: malbelaĵo (eo)
• Finnish: kauhistus (fi)

• Polish: brzydota (pl) f

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• French: laideur
• Italian: bruttezza