:catnoearscrown: :pepe_christ: 💢 :jahy_rage: Angry Kyūkyoku Wraith :jahy_rage: 💢 - :pepe_christ: :catnoearscrown: on Nostr: physiognomy n noun (plural physiognomies) 1 a person's facial features or expression, ...

physiognomy
n noun (plural physiognomies)
1 a person's facial features or expression, especially when regarded as indicative of character or ethnic origin.
2 the supposed art of judging character from facial characteristics.

DERIVATIVES
physiognomic adjective
physiognomical adjective
physiognomically adverb
physiognomist noun

ORIGIN
Middle English: from Old French phisonomie, via medieval Latin from Greek phusiognomonia 'judging of a man's nature (by his features)', based on gnomon 'judge or interpreter'.

I learned it years ago from a Worse Korea tv show and it never left.