facial

Etymology

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).

adj

1. (relational) Of or affecting the face.
2. (medicine, relational) Concerned with or used in improving the appearance of the face.
3. (transferred sense, law">law) (of a law">law or regulation validity) On its face; as it appears (as opposed to, as it is applied).
   The facial constitutionality of the law is in question.

noun

1. (medicine) A personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face.
2. (film) 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 […] 2004, Simon Popple, Joe Kember, Early Cinema: From Factory Gate to Dream Factory, page 92
3. (slang, sports) (in some contact sports) A foul play which involves one player hitting another in the face.
4. (slang, pornography, sex) A sex act of male ejaculation onto another person's face.
   Chuck gave his co-star a creamy facial.