different between facially vs facial

English

Etymology

facial +? -ly

Adverb

facially (not comparable)

1. Using or involving the face.
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     "The results showed that women were significantly more facially expressive than men for all emotion clips."

2. (law, of a law or regulation's validity) In a facial manner; on its face.

   The law will be repealed if it is found to be facially unconstitutional.

English

Etymology

Early 17th century, borrowed from Medieval Latin faci?lis (“face-to-face, direct, open”), from faci?s (“form, configuration, figure; face, visage, countenance”) +? -?lis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fe?.??l/
• Rhymes: -e???l

Adjective

facial (not comparable)

1. (relational) Of or affecting the face.
2. (medicine, relational) Concerned with or used in improving the appearance of the face.
3. (transferred sense, law) (of a law or regulation validity) On its face; as it appears (as opposed to, as it is applied).

Coordinate terms

• (dentistry location adjectives) anterior,? apical,? apicocoronal,? axial,? buccal,? buccoapical,? buccocervical,? buccogingival,? buccolabial,? buccolingual,? bucco-occlusal,? buccopalatal,? cervical,? coronal,? coronoapical,? distal,? distoapical,? distobuccal,? distocervical,? distocoronal,? distofacial,? distogingival,? distoincisal,? distolingual,? disto-occlusal,? distoclusal,? distocclusal,? distopalatal,? facial,? gingival,? incisal,? incisocervical,? inferior,? labial,? lingual,? linguobuccal,? linguo-occlusal,? mandibular,? maxillary,? mesial,? mesioapical,? mesiobuccal,? mesiocervical,? mesiocoronal,? mesiodistal,? mesiofacial,? mesioincisal,? mesiogingival,? mesiolingual,? mesio-occlusal,? mesioclusal,? mesiocclusal,? mesiopalatal,? occlusal,? palatal,? posterior,? proximal,? superior,? vestibular ^{(Category: en:Dentistry) [edit]}

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

facial (plural facials)

1. (medicine) A personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face.
2. (film) A kind of early silent film focusing on the facial expressions of the actor.
3. (slang, sports) (in some contact sports) A foul play which involves one player hitting another in the face.
4. (slang, sex) A sex act of male ejaculation onto another person's face.

Translations

References

• “facial”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “facial”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• cafila

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin faci?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /f?.si?al/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /fa.si?al/

Adjective

facial (masculine and feminine plural facials)

1. facial

Further reading

• “facial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From Latin faci?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.sjal/

Adjective

facial (feminine singular faciale, masculine plural faciaux, feminine plural faciales)

1. facial

Derived terms

• valeur faciale

Further reading

• “facial” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin faci?lis.

Adjective

facial m or f (plural faciais, comparable)

1. facial (of the face)

Romanian

Etymology

From French facial

Adjective

facial m or n (feminine singular facial?, masculine plural faciali, feminine and neuter plural faciale)

1. facial

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin faci?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /fa??jal/, [fa??jal]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /fa?sjal/, [fa?sjal]

Adjective

facial (plural faciales)

1. facial

Derived terms

• valor facial

Related terms

• faz
• superficie
• acera

Further reading

• “facial” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.