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Meaning of COMPLEXION

Pronunciation:  kum'plekshun

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  the coloring of a person's face
  2. [n]  (obsolete) a combination of elements (of dryness and warmth or of the four humors) that was once believed to determine a person's health and temperament
  3. [n]  texture and appearance of the skin of the face
  4. [n]  a point of view or general attitude or inclination; "he altered the complexion of his times"; "a liberal political complexion"
  5. [n]  a combination that results from coupling or interlinking; "diphthongs are complexions of vowels"
  6. [v]  give a certain color to; "The setting sun complexioned the hills"
 
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 Synonyms: skin color, skin colour, skin condition
 
 See Also: achromasia, appearance, blondness, color, coloring, colour, colouring, combination, darkness, duskiness, fairness, hue, imbue, lividity, lividness, luridness, nature, paleness, pallidness, pallor, point of view, rosiness, ruddiness, sallowness, stand, standpoint, swarthiness, tawniness, tinge, viewpoint, visual aspect, wanness

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Com*plex"ion\ (k[o^]m*pl[e^]k"sh[u^]n), n. [F.
complexion, fr. L. complexio. See {Complex}, a.]
1. The state of being complex; complexity. [Obs.]
         Though the terms of propositions may be complex, yet
         . . . it is properly called a simple syllogism,
         since the complexion does not belong to the
         syllogistic form of it.               --I. Watts.
2. A combination; a complex. [Archaic]
         This paragraph is . . . a complexion of sophisms.
                                               --Coleridge.
3. The bodily constitution; the temperament; habitude, or
   natural disposition; character; nature. [Obs.]
         If his complexion incline him to melancholy.
                                               --Milton.
         It is the complexion of them all to leave the dam.
                                               --Shak.
4. The color or hue of the skin, esp. of the face.
         Tall was her stature, her complexion dark.
                                               --Wordsworth.
         Between the pale complexion of true love, And the
         red glow of scorn and proud disdain.  --Shak.
5. The general appearance or aspect; as, the complexion of
   the sky; the complexion of the news.
 
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