becomingness

From becoming (“suitable, fit”) +‎ -ness.

becomingness (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being becoming (pleasingly suitable).
   • 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XXVI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

     Miss Crawford smiled her perfect approbation; and hastened to complete the gift by putting the necklace round her, and making her see how well it looked. Fanny had not a word to say against its becomingness, and, excepting what remained of her scruples, was exceedingly pleased with an acquisition so very apropos.

   • 1897, Frances Hodgson Burnett, chapter 17, in His Grace of Osmonde‎^[1], New York: Scribner, page 231:

     There would have been little becomingness in his hastening after her and his Lordship of Dunstanwolde; his court to her must be paid with grace and considerateness.

   • 1924, O. Douglas (pseudonym of Anna Masterton Buchan), Pink Sugar, London: Hodder & Stoughton, Chapter 22,^[2]

     The becomingness of Kirsty’s clothes did nothing to soften Rebecca’s feelings towards her.