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gracefulness

nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #15,055 of 15,258Too rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Gracefulness is the quality of moving with smooth and pleasing ease. Admired for her gracefulness.

It looks effortless and is the result of enormous unseen work. Gracefulness is noticed most when somebody recovers from a stumble without breaking stride.

Airwolfhound from Hertfordshire, UK · CC BY-SA 2.0

Definitions of gracefulness

  1. 1noungracefulnessThe quality of moving with smooth and pleasing ease, named with the noun ending -ness.C1

    “The gracefulness of the whole sequence took four months to build.”

gracefulness is a quality.

Where it comes from

  1. Middle English

    graceful

  2. English

    graceful

  3. English, today

    gracefulness

From graceful + -ness. graceful comes from Middle English graceful. by surface analysis, en + grace + ful.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

gracefulness in the wild

  • Photios highly praised it for its vivid narration, clarity, and the gracefulness of its descriptions.

    Antonius Diogenes

  • Lewis Edwards says his one distinguishing mark was gracefulness.

    John Evans (Methodist)

  • Sandunga is a rarely used word in the Spanish language that can be translated in a variety of ways including; gracefulness, elegance, charm, wit, and celebration.

    La Sandunga

  • The concept of gracefulness is applied both to movement, and to inanimate objects.

    Gracefulness

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

  • graceful