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English
Etymology
From aquiline + -ness.
Noun
aquilineness (uncountable)
- The quality of being like an eagle.
- Synonym: aquilinity
- 1848, George Jabet (as Eden Warwick), Nasology: or, Hints towards a Classification of Noses, London: Richard Bentley, Chapter 6, p. 169, footnote,
- The convexity of the Roman Nose is confined to the centre of the Nose, and occasions its aquilineness.
1888, J. E. C. Welldon, transl., The Politics of Aristotle, London: Macmillan, Book 8, Chapter 9, pp. 377-378:[…] there may be a nose which deviates from the ideal straightness towards the aquiline or the snub, but still remains beautiful and fair to view, and yet, if you still further intensify and exaggerate these tendencies, you will first sacrifice the due proportion of the feature, and, as you proceed, will eventually make it cease to look like a nose at all from the prominence of the one and the deficiency of the other of these opposite characteristics, viz., aquilineness and snubness,
1968, Hoyt W. Fuller, “Towards a Black Aesthetic”, in Addison Gayle, editor, The Black Aesthetic, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, published 1971, page 8:After centuries of being told, in a million different ways, that they were not beautiful, and that whiteness of skin, straightness of hair, and aquilineness of features constituted the only measures of beauty, black people have revolted.
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