Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Homeliness \Home"li*ness\, n. [From {Homely}.]
   1. Domesticity; care of home. [Obs.] ``Wifely homeliness.''
      --Chaucer.

   2. Familiarity; intimacy. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

   3. Plainness; want of elegance or beauty.

   4. Coarseness; simplicity; want of refinement; as, the
      homeliness of manners, or language. --Addison.

Source : WordNet®

homeliness
     n 1: lacking stylishness or neatness [syn: {dowdiness}, {drabness}]
     2: an appearance that is not attractive or beautiful; "fine
        clothes could not conceal the girl's homeliness" [syn: {plainness}]