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Discover LudwigThe phrase "the physiognomy" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a person's facial features or appearance. Example: The artist carefully studied the physiognomy of the model before beginning to paint, capturing every tiny detail of her face.
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the physiognomy
noun
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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What was the physiognomy of Sander's age?
It contemplates the physiognomy of breath.
It explained cohesively the physiognomy of the earth.
It was essential to the physiognomy of the town.
What matters here is the physiognomy of the shapes.
Experts understand the physiognomy of type that gives each typeface its unique personality.
Like a caricaturist, he thought that lies and cruelty settled like a crust on the physiognomy.
We described the landscape using multivariate ordination analyses of data characterizing the physiognomy of the municipalities.
"Superblocks are built, the physiognomy and services of the city are changed, without discussion," Ms. Huxtable wrote.
P. E. Bach, Portraits and the Physiognomy of Music History". Journal of the American Musicological Society 66, no. 2 (2013).
Nowhere else looks quite like modern-day Israel – the topography, the architecture, the physiognomy of its diverse population.
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