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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Pret'ti-ness, n.

noun

(prĭt'ti-nes), n. [From pretty.]

  1. The quality of being pretty; diminutive beauty; pleas­antness without stateliness or dignity; as, the prettiness of the face; the prettiness of a bird or other small animal; the prettiness of dress. More.
  2. Affectation of niceness; petty artificial adornment; neatness of taste; pleasing propriety; hence, sometimes in an ill sense, foppishness; finicalness. “A style . . . without sententious pretension or antithetical prettiness.” Jeffrey.