English Dictionary

complexion

IPA（発音記号）

/kəmˈplɛkʃən/

名詞

廃用 比喩的用法 特に 科学文献（独語由来）

(obsolete, medicine) The combination of humours making up one's physiological "temperament", being either hot or cold, and moist or dry. / The quality, colour, or appearance of the skin on the face.

日本語の意味

（古医学）体液の組み合わせによる体質、温・寒や湿・乾の傾向を表す / 顔の皮膚の質、色、外観

The physician attributed his melancholy to an imbalanced complexion, convinced the humours were out of balance.

医師は彼の憂鬱を体液の組み合わせによる体質の不均衡に帰しており、体内の体液がバランスを崩していると確信していた。

意味（1）

(obsolete, medicine) The combination of humours making up one's physiological "temperament", being either hot or cold, and moist or dry.

Ne ever is he wont on ought to feed / But todes and frogs, his pasture poysonous, / Which in his cold complexion doe breed / A filthy blood […]

意味（2）

The quality, colour, or appearance of the skin on the face.

a rugged complexion; a sunburnt complexion

意味（3）

(figuratively) The outward appearance of something.

It was a little unfortunate that the fib unfibbed gave their consultations something the complexion of that close understanding which exists between penitent and confessor.

意味（4）

Outlook, attitude, or point of view.

But the purely marginal jottings, done with no eye to the Memorandum Book, have a distinct complexion, and not only a distinct purpose, but none at all; this it is which imparts to them a value.

意味（5）

(loanword, especially in scientific works translated from German) An arrangement.

Second there is the level at which the energy or velocity components of each molecule are specified. He calls this a Komplexion, which we translate literally as complexion.

complexions （ plural ）