different between comeliness vs beseeming

English

Alternative forms

• comliness

Etymology

comely +? -ness (“the quality of being”)

Noun

comeliness (usually uncountable, plural comelinesses)

1. Quality of being comely; beauty, attractiveness.
   • 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:

     Hereat Alaeddin arose and took horse, his Mamelukes riding a-van and a-rear of him, and they were such that all must cry, "Laud to the Lord who created them and clothed them with such beauty and loveliness." And they scattered gold amongst the crowd in front of their master who surpassed them all in comeliness and seemlihead […]

Synonyms

• pulchritude

Anagrams

• incomeless

English

Etymology 1

Verb

beseeming

1. present participle of beseem

Adjective

beseeming (comparative more beseeming, superlative most beseeming)

1. Becoming, befitting, suitable.

Derived terms

• beseemingly
• beseemingness

Etymology 2

Noun

beseeming (usually uncountable, plural beseemings)

1. (obsolete) Appearance; look; clothing worn.
   • c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act V, Scene 5,^[1]

     I am, sir,

     The soldier that did company these three

     In poor beseeming;

2. (obsolete) Attractiveness. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)