The physiognomy of the landscape on the tropical coast is gorgeous.
Source: tatoeba (2415771)
Physiognomy
//fɪziˈɑ(ɡ)nəmi//
Synonyms for "physiognomy" (44 found)
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Related words (22)
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28 translations across 19 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- fisionomie noun (art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance)
Bulgarian
1 entries- физиономика noun (art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance)
Catalan
1 entries- fisonomia noun (art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 面相學 /面相学 noun (art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance)
Czech
1 entries- fyziognomie noun (art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance)
Danish
2 entries- fysiognomi noun (art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance)
- åsynskundskab noun (art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance)
Finnish
1 entries- fysiognomia noun (art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance)
French
1 entries- physiognomonie noun (art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance)
German
1 entries- Physiognomik noun (art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance)
Greek
2 entries- φυσιογνωμία noun (countenance)
- φυσιογνωμική noun (art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance)
Hungarian
1 entries- fiziognómia noun (art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- fysiognomi noun (art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- fysiognomi noun (art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance)
Portuguese
2 entries- fisiognomia noun (art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance)
- fisiognomonia noun (art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance)
Romanian
1 entries- fiziognomonie noun (art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance)
Russian
3 entries- физиогно́мика noun (art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance)
- физионо́мика noun (art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance)
- физионо́мия noun (countenance)
Spanish
4 entries- fisiognomía noun (art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance)
- fisiognómica noun (art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance)
- fisionomía noun (countenance)
- fisonomía noun (countenance)
Swedish
2 entries- fysionomi noun (countenance)
- fysionomik noun (art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance)
Telugu
1 entries- ముఖాకృతి noun (art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
Don't open your mouth, and your physiognomy demonstrates a preoccupation.
Source: tatoeba (7975912)
Known still less than Della Porta is the figure of Camillo Baldi, an early-seventeenth-century Bolognese physician and university professor who advanced the discussion from the study of physiognomy and skull sizes to the study of characteriology based on writing. I am still not sure what to make of this treatise on onychomancy, that is, divining by observing the fingernails, except that he accounted for the practice as an example of the acute application of observational technique to the signs and symbols left by intelligent nature for humans to decipher in view of some benefit.
Source: wiktionary
During a period of peak popularity in the 19ᵗʰ Century, the field of physiognomy became more sinister and racist than its quirky manifestation during the time of ancient Greeks.
Source: wiktionary
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