1. a person's facial features or expression, especially when regarded as indicative of character or ethnic origin: "friends began to notice a change in his physiognomy"
▪ the supposed art of judging character from facial characteristics: "a world where physiognomy was a respected practice"
▪ the general form or appearance of something:"the physiognomy of the landscape"
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French phisonomie, via medieval Latin from Greek phusiognōmonia ‘judging of a man's nature (by his features)’, based on gnōmōn ‘a judge, interpreter’.
