homeliness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or elegance
    drabness; dowdiness.
  2. noun an appearance that is not attractive or beautiful
    plainness.
    • fine clothes could not conceal the girl's homeliness

WordNet

Home"li*ness noun
Etymology
From Homely.
Definitions
  1. Domesticity; care of home. Obs. "Wifely homeliness." Chaucer.
  2. Familiarity; intimacy. Obs. Chaucer.
  3. Plainness; want of elegance or beauty.
  4. Coarseness; simplicity; want of refinement; as, the homeliness of manners, or language. Addison.

Webster 1913