Synonyms of physiognomy

physiognomy

noun

as in features

formal the appearance of a person's face; a person's facial features

He and his son have the same distinctive physiognomy.

Related Words

• features
• person
• appearance
• habit
• face
• manner
• presence
• countenance
• demeanor
• behavior
• visage
• attitude
• posture
• shape
• look
• habitus
• aspect
• color
• coloring
• bearing
• garb
• dress
• superficies
• mien
• air
• outside
• pose
• regard
• figure
• deportment
• comportment
• stance
• carriage
• complexion
• mold
• poise
• cast
• turn

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of physiognomy

From the start, Sander spurned ostensibly timeless archetypes in favor of timely examples of individuals who revealed the physiognomy of the present. — Noam M. Elcott, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2025

Such methods are considered unreliable, in particular as they are often based on evidence sets from European children that don’t match the physiognomies of young people from other place in the world. — Frey Lindsay, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025

What has not been sufficiently appreciated, however, is that the same systemic analysis of the exterior body’s flesh-and-bone parts that fueled physiognomy and phrenology in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries also extended to the hair. — Literary Hub, 9 June 2025

Kahn presents an extraordinary panoply of European, African, and Latin faces — physiognomies that instantly convey a liberal democracy in conflict. — Armond White, National Review, 6 Sep. 2024