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   ugliness
         n 1: qualities of appearance that do not give pleasure to the
               senses [ant: {beauty}]
         2: the quality of being wicked [syn: {nefariousness},
            {wickedness}, {vileness}, {ugliness}]

English Dictionary: ugliness by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
usualness
n
  1. commonness by virtue of not being unusual [ant: unusualness]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ugliness \Ug"li*ness\, n.
      The quality or state of being ugly.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Usual \U"su*al\, a. [L. usualis, from usus use: cf. F. usuel.
      See {Use}, n.]
      Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary
      practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary;
      ordinary; habitual; common.
  
               Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and
               frequent in their times.                        --Hooker.
  
               We can make friends of these usual enemies. --Baxter.
      -- {U"su*al*ly}, adv. -- {U"su*al*ness}, n.
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