What's the difference between cuteness and cutesiness?
Cuteness
Definition:
(n.) Acuteness; cunning.
Example Sentences:
(1) "In a sea of bubblegum-cute popsters, Sistar stand out for their cool and sexy image," says Scobie.
(2) There's a cute one comparing feelings to children: you don't want to let them drive, but equally you don't want to stuff them in the boot.
(3) You can use absolutely anything - an unwanted T-shirt, some old curtains, something you picked up in a charity shop ... Garish 70s-style prints you probably wouldn't dream of wearing work surprisingly well in soft toys: they are cute, they can pull it off.
(4) The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos.
(5) When he smiles, he looks as cute and gummy as a newborn.
(6) And we didn’t want a bloody female one – at least the last guy was cute.
(7) You're so cute, look at you in your little jumper!"
(8) Our compilation of near misses on the road may be a little hair-raising but, as a bonus, we offer a lucky cyclist who is hit by a car but lands on a mattress There is no shortage of cute pets this week, with a cat who is into escapology and a dog who loves rolling on the bed when he thinks his owner isn't around .
(9) Does appreciation for cuteness come naturally, or does it reveal something about our society?
(10) Another great feature of the panda, at least as far as Chairman Mao Zedong and his followers were concerned, was that the rest of the world, particularly the west, had become obsessed by its excruciatingly cute looks and behaviour.
(11) Laurinda runs Casa do Norte (from £30 a night) – a cute, romantic cottage to kick back in – and manages a handful of other turismos rurales.
(12) Lorenz’s paper is the blueprint of cute studies, but it did not produce a positive reaction among the scientific community.
(13) Despite their cute appearance, the animals have been known to bite the fingers off of tourists who have gone into the cages .
(14) This is Iron Man as Conan: he may be a genius on Earth but when he meets advanced alien civilisations, they just see him as a cute little barbarian."
(15) Snap – they're my photos 8 Extreme Mountain Unicycling This is wheely dangerous, said a spokesman … 9 How to win Chess in 4 moves Pawn movie 10 Dog Jumps Over A River Cute – you'll want to stream this video Source: Viral Video Chart .
(16) The beach is half a block a way, and you even get a cute, hand-drawn map to guide you around the sand-street town.
(17) People genuinely like them because they're funny, interesting, cute or just generally interesting.
(18) We're in a time where it is cute to be provocative and alternative and distinct.
(19) But it's obvious from the start that there are no deferential nods to Egyptian, classical, modernist or postmodernist modes, no reassuring "quotes" like the over-cute pilasters that adorn the extension to London's National Gallery by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.
(20) For Kaori Kitakata, a devotee since she was introduced to the genre by Korean friends, K-pop is a change from the overtly cute mien cultivated by popular Japanese girlbands such as Morning Musume .
Cutesiness
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) It was time to branch out a little, and if it took Zooey Deschanel to push me off the cliff of cutesy little dresses and into the world of more adult dressing, well, question not the means but welcome the result.
(2) The clothes are at the forefront of Shibuya fashion, taking cues from the park sandpit, the urban divebar and grandma's wardrobe, and reworking them into a cutesy package for teenagers.
(3) In previous outings, conversation prints and skater skirt shapes could have been seen as cutesy, but this season's dresses had no-brainier ease that also came with a Beckham-branded complexity and sophistication.
(4) So I carved the – sickeningly cutesy – pet name she'd given me.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Other late-night shows always seemed to find it harder to take on Trump at all – Jimmy Fallon took on a significant amount of criticism for having the candidate on The Tonight Show for a cutesy interview late in the campaign , while Saturday Night Live has been struggling to play catch-up since the ethical lapse of Trump’s bland hosting gig late last year.
(6) Clearly, the early word that Romney would offer "zingers" was a misdirection, as he avoided most cutesy or canned lines.
(7) This combination of cutesy characteristics is impossible to resist.
(8) The current posture from Abbott and the Coalition is not all smoke and mirrors and cutesy politics.
(9) He knew the darker side and what it means to have demons,” Gilliam said, adding that Williams helped to turn the scenes from “cutesy” on the page to something much darker.
(10) The two most likely, however, are JJ Abrams's spy drama The Undercovers, a Hart to Hart for the 21st century starring Britain's Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and the cutesy rom-com Love Bites, Working Title's first production for US television .
(11) Cutesy euphemisms are used, like wine o’clock and mummy petrol.
(12) At times it’s in danger of veering into annoyingly cutesy Kids Say the Funniest Things territory, but then the kids are often as funny as the adults.
(13) Cutesy graphics and a nagging chiptune soundtrack made this under-the-radar game one of the most appealing Android releases of 2014 so far: easy to play, but difficult to put down.
(14) When Poehler self-deprecates, she doesn’t do it in a charming, cutesy-wootsy way, but rather an honest way, and then counters it with some self-pride and self-awareness.
(15) But why can't someone write a female equivalent of, say, the mock-biopic Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, so Anna Faris could expand on her scene-stealing Britney Spears impersonation from Just Good Friends with a potted send-up of half a century of girly music, instead of being stuck in cutesy fluff like The House Bunny?
(16) 5 Rose Cottage, Mojandita, Otavalo As the name might suggest, this Andean resting spot is part-British owned, which also shows in the country-garden flowers and cutesy cabins.
(17) We’re taking a slightly more disciplined approach now: no building in the cluster should be trying to shout down its neighbour.” For the past year – since the departure of chief planner Peter Rees, who had a thing for towers with quirky profiles and cutesy nicknames – Richards and his team have been developing a 3D digital model that visualises the invisible planning constraints in the City.
(18) It's a seductive mix of cutesy visuals and extreme blood-splattered chaos.
(19) Some names are a bit cutesy for my liking, but then same-sex couples do not have the thousands of years of precedent to follow, as straight couples do.
(20) Then, like now, I split my time between the brutalist centre of Corby, and a handful of the smaller towns and villages that seem to exist in a different world: Thrapston, Irthlingborough – and Oundle, the cutesy settlement built around the public school of the same name (and, weirdly, the one-time home of Billy Bragg, who wrote his enduring classic A New England at No 15 North Street, two minutes from the short stay car park).