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/ˌfəʊtəˈdʒɛnᵻkli/, /ˌfəʊtəˈdʒiːnᵻkli/, U.S. /ˌfoʊdəˈdʒɛnək(ə)li/ 1. By means of light. Now rare.
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1839 Memes tr. L. J. M. Daguerre Photogenic Drawing (ed. 3) 53 It was I [sc. Daguerre] who first pointed out iodine..as the sensitive coating upon which the image was to be created photogenically.
1847 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 137 258 The red, orange and yellow radiations of the prism had..the power of operating photogenically.
1856 L. Hill Treat. on Heliochromy 86 I saw him produce, photogenically, beautiful copies of colored objects, by an exposure of three or four seconds to diffuse light.
1906 New Phytologist 5 224 The mechanism of curvature is the same whether a seedling curves geogenically or photogenically.
1959 Times 23 Feb. 10/6 There were nets drying photogenically in the sun.
2. In a manner that shows advantageously in a photograph or film; in a photographically effective way.
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1953 Variety 1 Jan. Adams, in a rather thankless role, fails to come off either photogenically or performance-wise.
1968 Times 8 Mar. 8/1 He still likes Guinness and he still cocks his ears photogenically.
1993 N.Y. Times 14 Sept. a14/6 Mr. Arafat's hands could be seen occasionally fiddling with his headdress to get its point photogenically straight—a habit of his.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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