[ noun ] the quality of being appealing in a delicate or graceful way (of a girl or young woman) <noun.attribute>
Prettiness \Pret"ti*ness\, n. The quality or state of being pretty; -- used sometimes in a disparaging sense.
A style . . . without sententious pretension or antithetical prettiness. --Jeffrey.
Originally the piece trod a skilful path over an abyss of Victorian prettiness and excessive Mendelssohnian charm.
The Royal Ballet no longer speaks Ashton's poetry as well as it does Forsythe's rap. There sometimes seems a prettiness, an almost fatal charm, in Ashton ballets, as with the fairies in The Dream or Cinderella, or the skaters in Les Patineurs.
Indeed, this isn't a picture for those who find prettiness annoying.