facial
adjective
- pertaining to faces
noun
- skin treatment on face
- sexual activity
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪ.ʃəl/
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin faciō Proto-Italic *-jēs Latin -iēs Latin faciēs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Medieval Latin faciālisbor. English facial Early 17th century, borrowed from Medieval Latin faciālis (“face-to-face, direct, open”), from faciēs (“form, configuration, figure; face, visage, countenance”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
- Of or affecting the face.
- Concerned with or used in improving the appearance of the face.
- (of a law or regulation validity) On its face; as it appears (as opposed to on a more probing analysis, as it is applied, etc.).
“The facial constitutionality of the law is in question.”
“Discipline is a form of counter-law, of dissymmetry and inequality, that operates under the discourse of juridical power to make possible the stated or facial claims of equality and rights characteristic of the French Revolution.”
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin faciō Proto-Italic *-jēs Latin -iēs Latin faciēs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Medieval Latin faciālisbor. English facial Early 17th century, borrowed from Medieval Latin faciālis (“face-to-face, direct, open”), from faciēs (“form, configuration, figure; face, visage, countenance”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
- A personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face.
- A kind of early silent film focusing on the facial expressions of the actor.
“But in facials, moving picture technology also enabled an exaggeration of this performance tradition, bringing a new emphasis to the details […]”
- (in some contact sports) A foul play which involves one player hitting another's face.
- A sex act of ejaculation onto another person's face.
“Long-Dong Chuck gave his co-star a creamy facial.”
“For the piece she spoke to two women who said they enjoy facials, and who described the act as ‘the mark of a job well done’ and ‘really hot’. But Reid concludes that she herself finds facials deeply unpleasant.”