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visage noun The word face may be a pretty generic word, but it has several high-flown synonyms. Physiognomy, for instance, refers to facial features thought to reveal qualities of temperament or character. "I thought I could detect in his physiognomy a mind owning better qualities than his father ever possessed," Emily Brontë writes in Wuthering Heights. Countenance is often used to refer to the face as an indication of mood or emotion, as Bram Stoker types in Dracula: "Mina struggled hard to keep her brave countenance." Visage can refer to the face of a person or an animal, and it can also refer to the appearance of nonliving things, as in "the dirty visage of the old abandoned factory." 1 : the face, countenance, or appearance of a person or sometimes an animal2 : aspect, appearance

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October 20, 2020 VIZ-ij "But aside from the visage of Grumpy Cat—who may not have been grumpy at all—feline faces don't tell us much about how cats feel."— Karin Brulliard, The Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2019"Looking for his own visage in the glass, he caught his shimmering outline and checked that his tie was right…." — Peter Mountford, The Dismal Science, 2014

Word	visage
Date	October 20, 2020
Type	noun
Syllables	VIZ-ij
Etymology	The word face may be a pretty generic word, but it has several high-flown synonyms. Physiognomy, for instance, refers to facial features thought to reveal qualities of temperament or character. "I thought I could detect in his physiognomy a mind owning better qualities than his father ever possessed," Emily Brontë writes in Wuthering Heights. Countenance is often used to refer to the face as an indication of mood or emotion, as Bram Stoker types in Dracula: "Mina struggled hard to keep her brave countenance." Visage can refer to the face of a person or an animal, and it can also refer to the appearance of nonliving things, as in "the dirty visage of the old abandoned factory."
Examples	"But aside from the visage of Grumpy Cat—who may not have been grumpy at all—feline faces don't tell us much about how cats feel."— Karin Brulliard, The Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2019 "Looking for his own visage in the glass, he caught his shimmering outline and checked that his tie was right…." — Peter Mountford, The Dismal Science, 2014
Definition	1 : the face, countenance, or appearance of a person or sometimes an animal 2 : aspect, appearance

Visage Face Refer Appearance Thought Qualities Person Grumpy