BEAUTY

Beauty

Beauty is a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology, social psychology, and culture. An "ideal beauty" is an entity which is admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture, for perfection.

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beauty

Noun

  1. The property, quality or state of being "that which pleases merely by being perceived" (Aquinas); that which is attractive, pleasing, fine or good looking; comeliness.
  2. Someone who is beautiful.
    Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty.
  3. Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
    That phrasing is a beauty.
    What a goal, what a beauty.
  4. An excellent or egregious example of something.
  5. The excellence, e.g. the genius
    ''The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!
  6. A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
  7. Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
  8. Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.

Adverb

  1. Of high quality, well done.
    He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.

Interjection

  1. Thanks! Cool!
    It's the long weekend. Beauty!


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