Of, relating to, or characteristic of cosmetics or beauty treatments; pertaining to external adornment.
Extended form of 'cometic' with the additional suffix '-al', creating an emphatic or more formal adjective. Follows patterns of scientific English like 'theoretical' from 'theory'.
The multiplication of suffixes (-etic, then -etic + -al) shows how English speakers can keep amplifying formality—'cometical' sounds more authoritative than 'cosmetic,' though they mean essentially the same thing.
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