physiognomy
noun
the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character.
physiognomic
-
a word derived from
physiognomy.
Example Sentences
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Is its novelistic world built on physiognomic laws?
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2016
Jane, whose judgments of Rochester, Blanche, and St. John land with unerring accuracy, knows how to unlock physiognomic secrets invisible to the untrained eye.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2016
But then it's hard enough to forgive him his physiognomic good fortune without having to add praise on top.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2011
They fit effortlessly into the context of a contemporary art that encompasses images of physiognomic distortion by artists like Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Arnulf Rainer, Cindy Sherman, Ashley Bickerton and Keith Edmier, among many others.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2010
And the human figure, though its proximate phase of existence, is at the same time in its physiognomic and pathognomic quality something contingent to it.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
