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What is the noun for physiognomy?

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physiognomy
  1. The art or pseudoscience of deducing the predominant temper and other characteristic qualities of the mind from the outward appearance, especially from the features of the face.
  2. The face or countenance, with respect to the temper of the mind; particular configuration, cast, or expression of countenance, as denoting character.
  3. The art of telling fortunes by inspection of the features.
  4. The general appearance or aspect of a thing, without reference to its scientific characteristics.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “But this woman has committed to memory all the essentials of her own physiognomy, and can conjure up, time and again, her own basic likeness without resorting to a mirror.”
      “The science of physiognomy was of particular importance to the ancient Greeks.”
      “There is no doubt that Charles Darwin was sceptical about the claims of physiognomy with regard to expression and emotion.”
physiognomist
  1. One who studies, or is an expert in, physiognomy; one who studies the outer appearance of the person (primarily the face) to acquire knowledge of the inner personality.
  2. Examples:
    1. “I raised myself to a more upright position befitting a solemn physiognomist and a counseller and leaned forward.”
      “Therefore, one doesn't have to be a physiognomist to be able to recognize the aura of a General in General Hieu's physiognomy.”
      “While the convives were passing through the hall, Mr. Sidney, the physiognomist and expert, seemed disinclined to proceed.”
physiognomics
  1. The study of physiognomy.
physiognomonics
  1. The study of physiognomy.
physiognomer
  1. (archaic) A physiognomist.
physiognomists
  1. plural of physiognomist
physiognomers
  1. plural of physiognomer
physiognomies
  1. plural of physiognomy
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “These dislocated physiognomies are searing psychic masks whose crazed features seem to express the artist's creative and psychological isolation.”
      “By the later eighteenth century, Johann Caspar Lavater insisted on profile silhouettes as the most stable means of representing physiognomies.”
      “The varieties in the zoetic course in men must, therefore, be much greater than the varieties in their physiognomies.”
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