complexion
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complexion
- /kəmˈplɛkʃən/ US
Rhymes with -ɛkʃən
Where it comes from
From Middle English complexion (“temperament”), from Old French complexion (French complexion), from Medieval Latin complexiō (“complexion, constitution”), from complector, past participle complexus (“to entwine, encompass”).
noun complexions · complection
- The quality, colour, or appearance of the skin on the face. a rugged complexion
- The outward appearance of something. It was a little unfortunate that the fib unfibbed gave their consultations something the complexion of that close understanding which exists between penitent and confessor.
- Outlook, attitude, or point of view. That minister was galbet, or admiral of the realm, very much in his master’s confidence, and a person well versed in affairs, but of a morose and sour complexion.
- The combination of humours making up one's physiological "temperament", being either hot or cold, and moist or dry. Ne ever is he wont on ought to feed / But todes and frogs, his pasture poysonous, / Which in his cold complexion doe breed / A filthy blood […]
- An arrangement. 1909, Ludwig Boltzmann, translated by Kim Sharp and Franz Matschinsky Second there is the level at which the energy or velocity components of each molecule are specified. He calls this a Komplexion, which we translate literally as complexion.
verb complexions · complexioning · complexioned · complection
- To give a colour to. From the pale refinement of her genteel heroine to the sallow complexioning of poor white trash, Stowe colors her narrative with the hues of the body.
