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homeliness (n.)
mid-14c., "meekness, gentleness," also "familiarity, intimacy; friendliness," from
homely
+
-ness
. Sense degenerated by c. 1400 to "want of refinement in manners, coarseness; presumptuousness." Meaning "lack of beauty" is by 1849.
