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countable and uncountable, plural seemlinesses
(uncountable) The property of being seemly, appropriateness of conduct or behavior. quotations examples
Her black dress, simple to austerity, suggested her bereaved condition, and I was innocently astonished that notwithstanding a real emotion she was able to dress the part she had to play according to her notions of seemliness.
1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “ch. 10”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […]
(countable) The result or product of being seemly. examples