loveliness

1. (uncountable) The property of being lovely, of attractiveness, beauty, appearing to be lovable.Examples: "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: / Its loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness; but still will keep / A bower quiet for us, and a sleep / Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing."; "Then, seated in her barbaric chair above them all, with myself at her feet, was the veiled white woman, whose loveliness and awesome power seemed to visibly shine about her like a halo, or rather like the glow from some unseen light."uncountable

2. (countable) The result of being lovely.countable

3. (zoology, collective) A group of ladybirds.Examples: "'A loveliness of ladybirds,' whispers Roisin to her sleeping child, and looks at her husband proudly. He grins back. 'Aye, the plague of last summer. Couldn't pick up a glass of lemonade without finding a hundred ladybirds using it as a bubble-bath.'"; "A loveliness of ladybugs is enjoying lunch - little aphids that pepper a crop of soybeans."; "Sparks of sunlight caught on a loveliness of ladybirds that had floated into the waiting room through an open door."collectivecountableuncountable