visnomy

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A form of physiognomy — 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.

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Meanings

nounvisnomy (countable and uncountable, plural visnomies)

plural visnomies

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete form of physiognomy.

    With sorrow dimmed and deform'd it were , The goodly ymage of your visnomy

    1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC
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Chicago

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