Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Homeliness

Homeliness , noun

[From Homely.]

1.
Domesticity; care of home. [Obsolete]
Wifely homeliness. — Chaucer
2.
Familiarity; intimacy. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
3.
Plainness; want of elegance or beauty.
4.
Coarseness; simplicity; want of refinement; as, the homeliness of manners, or language. — Addison