Timeline for An adjective to describe eyes like these?
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| Aug 11, 2021 at 15:10 | comment | added | LPH | @tchrist after all, although eyelids not fully retracted seem to be undesirable, there are people who might not be so disatified with this particularity of their eye shape. One might note that both the present day leader of Japan and that of China, Shinzo Abe and Xi Jinping, have this feature in a characteristic degree (ref.). (3/3) | |
| Aug 11, 2021 at 15:09 | comment | added | LPH | @tchrist "his eyelids drooped" one can read the assertion of a momentary situation (due to weariness, or a particular state of mind perhaps), but I have no certitude as to whether this is a valid enunciation as the characterization of the permanent shape of someone's eyelid aperture. "Ptosis" and its derivatives are definitely out, I think; inherited characteristics may be changed through aesthetic surgery but they are not to be associated with medical conditions, it's best to keep the two things apart; (2/3) | |
| Aug 11, 2021 at 15:09 | comment | added | LPH | @tchrist Suggesting, in this context of finding a term, is beyond my "function": there might be a couple of terms yet to appear on the post, and I think I have determined one, so, that wouldn't be judicious. I think that even if the term "drooping eyelids" has two uses (medical (plenty of occurrences) and current language with no medical overtones (comparatively rare), it can be used in that latter domain. There is a possible problem of ambiguity (that the context should clear up) with the verb and the deverbal adjective; one thing is certain and that is that in such constructions as (1/3) | |
| Aug 11, 2021 at 15:05 | comment | added | Lambie | @tchrist "He glanced at her through his ptotic. lizard-like eyes." I did get a laugh out of your comment here and up there, I have to say. | |
| Aug 11, 2021 at 14:21 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | 👀 Is this something eyes do or something eyelids do—or both? 👁 Is then what you’re suggesting here for the answer actually the verb to droop? Or the adjective droopy as in droopy drawers? Or the deverbal adjective drooping used attributively? Or the past participle drooped used passively or predicatively or attributively? Or the adverb droopingly? Or the noun ptosis, possibly used attributively? Or the adjective ptotic? Or the adverb ptoticly? Or the adjective ptotical? Or the adverb ptotically? 😇 | |
| Aug 11, 2021 at 7:07 | history | edited | LPH | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 11, 2021 at 6:53 | history | answered | LPH | CC BY-SA 4.0 |