physiognomy

IPA: fɪziʌgnʌmi

The art or pseudoscience of deducing the predominant temper and other characteristic qualities of the mind from the outward appearance, especially from the features of the face.
The face or countenance, with respect to the temper of the mind; particular configuration, cast, or expression of countenance, as denoting character.
The art of telling fortunes by inspection of the features.
The general appearance or aspect of a thing, without reference to its scientific characteristics.

Examples of "physiognomy" in Sentences

But our physiognomy is only a part of the equation.
These Tartars do not differ much in physiognomy from the Chinese.
If he does not justify the hopes and expectations of the nation, physiognomy is of no value. —
Remember that his very physiognomy is a cipher the key to which it behooves you to search for most diligently.
I would again borrow Ld Carysforts book, [4] & get a face of better physiognomy from the print there. the book does not want such aid — but it would be serving a young man of merit, who wants assistance.
He was born under the Pyrenees; he was a Gascon of the Gascons, one of a people strongly distinguished by intellectual and moral character, by manners, by modes of speech, by accent, and by physiognomy from the French of the Seine and of the Loire; and he had many of the peculiarities of the race to which he belonged.
Yet for the sheer visual audacity and wit, the Echt Amerikan sense of the didactic effortlessly intermingled with pleasure (We’re gonna expose you to some highbrow music, sonny, but you’ll have fun anyway), and the move away from the heavy Germanic style of earlier features into a cleaner, more open sense of space and horizon and character (physiognomy is destiny, except when hippos dance!) it remains my favorite feature-length release.