Loveliness is the quality of being beautiful and pleasing. The loveliness of the evening, sheer loveliness, admire her loveliness.
It is a gentler word than beauty and carries warmth rather than awe, which is why it suits a garden or an afternoon better than a mountain. It is slightly old-fashioned, and modern speech says how lovely rather than reaching for the noun.
1nounlovelinessThe quality of being beautiful and pleasing.
“She stood at the window, struck by the loveliness of the snowy garden.”
loveliness is a quality.
Lovely plus -ness. Lovely once meant loving or affectionate rather than beautiful.
Middle English
luflynes
English, today
loveliness
From Middle English luflynes; equivalent to lovely + ness.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA