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Meaning of "ugliness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UGLINESS

ugliness  [ˈʌɡlɪnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UGLINESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ugliness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES UGLINESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

ugliness

Beauty

Beauty is a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology, social psychology, and culture. An "ideal beauty" is an entity which is admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture, for perfection. The experience of "beauty" often involves an interpretation of some entity as being in balance and harmony with nature, which may lead to feelings of attraction and emotional well-being. Because this can be a subjective experience, it is often said that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." There is evidence that perceptions of beauty are evolutionarily determined, that things, aspects of people and landscapes considered beautiful are typically found in situations likely to give enhanced survival of the perceiving human's genes.

Definition of ugliness in the English dictionary

The first definition of ugliness in the dictionary is the quality of having an unpleasant or unsightly appearance. Other definition of ugliness is repulsiveness or objectionableness. Ugliness is also bad-temper, anger or sullenness.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UGLINESS


comeliness
ˈkʌmlɪnɪs
deadliness
ˈdedlɪnɪs
friendliness
ˈfrɛndlɪnɪs
godliness
ˈɡɒdlɪnɪs
holiness
ˈhəʊlɪnɪs
kindliness
ˈkaɪndlɪnɪs
liveliness
ˈlaɪvlɪnɪs
loveliness
ˈlʌvlɪnɪs
lowliness
ˈləʊlɪnɪs
manliness
ˈmænlɪnɪs
neighbourliness
ˈneɪbəlɪnɪs
oiliness
ˈɔɪlɪnɪs
shapeliness
ˈʃeɪplɪnɪs
shoaliness
ˈʃəʊlɪnɪs
silliness
ˈsɪlɪnɪs
timeliness
ˈtaɪmlɪnɪs
ungodliness
ʌnˈɡɒdlɪnɪs
user-friendliness
ˌjuːzəˈfrendlɪnɪs
womanliness
ˈwʊmənlɪnɪs
worldliness
ˈwɜːldlɪnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UGLINESS

ugh
UGLI
UGLI fruit
uglier
UGLIES
ugliest
uglification
uglified
uglifier
uglifies
uglify
uglily
UGLIS
ugly
Ugly American
ugly duckling
Ugrian
Ugric
ugsome
ugsomeness

WORDS THAT END LIKE UGLINESS

agribusiness
big business
bulkiness
business
cleanliness
cleanliness is next to godliness
core business
craziness
dizziness
do the business
e-business
emptiness
family business
fitness
happiness
laziness
loneliness
readiness
rough-and-readiness
show business
trustworthiness

Synonyms and antonyms of ugliness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ugliness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UGLINESS

Find out the translation of ugliness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ugliness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ugliness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fealdad
570 millions of speakers

English

ugliness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कुरूपता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

القبح
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

уродство
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

feiúra
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কদর্যতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

laideur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

kehodohan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hässlichkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

醜さ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kebecikan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự xấu đi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அருவருப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कुरुपता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çirkinlik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bruttezza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

brzydota
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

потворність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

urâțenie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ασχήμια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lelike
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fulhet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

stygghet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ugliness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UGLINESS»

The term «ugliness» is quite widely used and occupies the 54.386 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UGLINESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «ugliness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «ugliness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ugliness

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10 QUOTES WITH «UGLINESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word ugliness.
1
Wendell Berry
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
2
Joseph Brodsky
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
3
Tina Brown
It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation.
4
Jung Chang
I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.
5
Nick Clooney
In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing.
6
Chris Columbus
I can understand the validity of showing people the ugliness of the world, but I also think there is a place for movies to leave people with a sense of hope.
7
Oriana Fallaci
Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.
8
Anna Freud
Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
9
Serge Gainsbourg
Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.
10
Marcia Gay Harden
I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UGLINESS»

Discover the use of ugliness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ugliness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
On Ugliness
Abundantly illustrated with demons, madmen, vile enemies and disquieting presences, with freaks and the living dead, On Ugliness is conceived for a vast and diverse readership, and is an invaluable companion volume to On Beauty.
Umberto Eco, 2011
2
The Australian Ugliness: Text Classics
This edition is complemented by Robin Boyd's original sketches for the book and a new afterword by major contemporary architects: John Denton, Philip Goad and Geoffrey London. Robin Boyd is arguably Australia's most influential architect.
Robin Boyd, 2012
3
The Aesthetics of Ugliness
Specifically, this study examines how the previously negligible role of ugliness develops into a functional one within aesthetics and Enlightenment culture; further, ugliness comes to manifest itself formally and thematically in literature.
Anna Elizabeth Baker, 2008
4
Ugliness: The Non-beautiful in Art and Theory
This book seeks to remedy this oversight through both broad theoretical reflection and concrete case studies of ugliness in various historical and cultural contexts.
Andrei Pop, Mechtild Widrich, 2013
5
Lies and Ugliness
A collection of horror and dark fantasy stories including "The 121st Day of Sodom."
Brian Hodge, 2005
6
The Modernist Cult of Ugliness: Aesthetic and Gender Politics
Higgins takes in texts such as John Ruskin’s art criticism, Eliot’s literary journalism, Lewis’s pro-fascism pamphlets, and the poetry of Pound, Conrad Aiken, and Langston Hughes.
Lesley Higgins, 2002
7
English Inside and Out: The Places of Literary Criticism
8. The. Unbearable. Ugliness. of. Volvos. STANLEY FISH On a day in the mid- seventies—it may have varied in different parts of the country and at different universities— American academics stopped buying ugly Volkswagens and started ...
Susan Gubar, Jonathan Kamholtz, 1993
8
Dave Cooper's underbelly: additional observations on the ...
Although much of the work in "Underbelly appears to have slithered out of a similar same place as "Overbite, this latest batch has a decidedly darker and more urban flavor.
Dave Cooper, 2005
9
Beauty and Ugliness in Early Modern Iberian Literature
Beauty and ugliness can be interpreted as intrinsic aspects of characterization.
Maria João Dodman, 2007
10
The German Aesthetic Tradition
Adorno later reverses for modern art by claiming that now beauty always emerges out of ugliness. For Rosenkranz, the secondary nature of ugliness, however, is most apparent in the fact that beauty is not enhanced by the existence of ...
Kai Hammermeister, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UGLINESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ugliness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
In a Sport of Beautiful Animals, Ugliness Is Unavoidable
OCEANPORT, N.J. — Outside the paddock before Sunday's William Hill Haskell Invitational, the crowd angling for an up-close look at American Pharoah was, ... «New York Times, Aug 15»
2
The Spectator at war: The ugliness of pacifism
circa 1915: American preacher, lawyer and populist politician William Jennings Bryan, (1860 - 1925), who, as a pacifist, resigned office over the second ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 15»
3
Wafer-thin iPhone 7 concept combines elegance with ugliness
We aren't going to find out what the next iPhone looks like until Apple shows us (probably in September), but that isn't stopping designers from dreaming up ... «Cult of Mac, Jul 15»
4
Time to get rid of the ugliness about LNG
The weekend attack on Facebook degenerated into an ugliness that became personal and upsetting, and fortunately the post was eventually removed, but the ... «Squamish Chief, May 15»
5
Miuccia Prada: 'Embrace ugliness, ageing and get a job'
Embrace ugliness and ageing rather than obsessing about it, she extols, never wearing make-up and not really caring about making a style statement when she ... «Irish Times, May 15»
6
Survivor's Tyler Fredrickson: This Season's Ugliness Is 'Unfortunate'
As Survivor: Worlds Apart heads into its penultimate episode on Wednesday night, Tyler Fredrickson is out of the running for the million dollar prize. Fredrickson ... «People Magazine, May 15»
7
Survivor host Jeff Probst weighs in on all the ugliness from men …
Survivor host Jeff Probst weighs in on all the ugliness from men toward women this season. by Dalton Ross • @DaltonRoss · Share · Tweet · Share on Google+ ... «Entertainment Weekly, Apr 15»
8
Latham: Staring ugliness right between the eyes
It's been on my mind to find out the answer to that question since writing a story about the Zonta Club of Longview's project to do whatever it can to bring an end ... «Longview News-Journal, Apr 15»
9
Amid ugliness, Bulls show a 'Big Three' just like big-boy teams
The Bulls' plan to construct a roster of more game-changing scoring options than Derrick Rose is playing out. When Derrick Rose and Pau Gasol are going bad ... «Chicago Tribune, Apr 15»
10
10 Degrees: The ugliness of the Dodgers' TV mess
For the second straight season, the highest-paid baseball team in history can't be seen legally by more than 70 percent of its viewing audience, and everyone ... «Yahoo Sports, Apr 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Ugliness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/ugliness>. May 2024 ».
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