What's the difference between dowdiness and homeliness?

Dowdiness

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(n.) Domesticity; care of home.
(n.) Familiarity; intimacy.
(n.) Plainness; want of elegance or beauty.
(n.) Coarseness; simplicity; want of refinement; as, the homeliness of manners, or language.

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(1) For all his intensity, he has a warm, informal midwestern homeliness.
(2) From this it might be extrapolated that with this latest appointment, the board at RBS and the financial policymaking establishment are signalling a new direction for the bank: away from the toxic wheeler-dealing of the Fred the Shred years and towards a new, homelier business.
(3) But I don’t see he’s unapproachable.” His campaign is seemingly mounting a belated bid to cultivate a homelier image.