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Middle English
- phisonomy, phisinomie, fisenamie, fisenamy, phisnomie, phisnomy, fisnomie, fisnomy, fisnamie, fisnamy, vesnamy
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman phisonomie, Old French fisonomie, Medieval Latin physonomia, via Late Latin physiognōmia from Koine Greek φυσιογνωμίᾱ (phusiognōmíā, “physiology”), from φύσις (phúsis, “form, appearance; character, nature”) + γνώμη (gnṓmē, “means of knowing”).
Noun
phisonomie (plural phisonomies)
- physiognomy; the study of a person's physical attributes, particularly facial features, to discern a person's nature or character
- the human face; facial expression, countenance
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