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Definition of Beauty

1. Noun. The qualities that give pleasure to the senses.

2. Noun. A very attractive or seductive looking woman.

3. Noun. An outstanding example of its kind. "When I make a mistake it's a beaut"

Definition of Beauty

1. n. An assemblage of graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the æsthetic faculty, or the moral sense.

Definition of Beauty

1. Noun. 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. ¹

2. Noun. Someone who is beautiful. ¹

3. Noun. Something that is particularly good or pleasing. ¹

4. Noun. An excellent or egregious example of something. ¹

5. Noun. (qualifier with the definite article) The excellence, e.g. the genius ¹

6. Noun. (particles obsolete) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark). ¹

7. Noun. Beauty treatment; cosmetology. ¹

8. Interjection. (Canada) Thanks! Cool! ¹

9. Adverb. (Canada) Of high quality, well done. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Beauty

1. one that is lovely [n -TIES]

Medical Definition of Beauty

1. Origin: OE. Beaute, beute, OF. Beaute, biaute, Pr. Beltat, F. Beaute, fr. An assumed LL. Bellitas, from L. Bellus pretty. See Beau. 1. An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the aesthetic faculty, or the moral sense. "Beauty consists of a certain composition of colour and figure, causing delight in the beholder." (Locke) "The production of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole." (Wordsworth) "The old definition of beauty, in the Roman school, was, "multitude in unity;" and there is no doubt that such is the principle of beauty." (Coleridge) 2. A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature. 3. A beautiful person, especially. A beautiful woman. "All the admired beauties of Verona." (Shak) 4. Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion. "She stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty." (Jer. Taylor) Beauty spot, a patch or spot placed on the face with intent to heighten beauty by contrast. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beauty

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Literary usage of Beauty

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it is with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1883)
"but he that was first delighted with comeliness and beauty. ... beauty shines, Plato saith, and by reason of its splendour and shining causeth admiration ..."

2. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David ( Hume (1898)
"Of beauty and Deformity. Whether we consider the body as a part of ourselves, ... But beauty of all kinds gives us a peculiar delight and satisfaction ..."

3. The Confessions of S. Augustine: Book I-X. by Augustine (1886)
"Love hath its origin in the attraction exercised by grace and beauty. things I then knew not, and I used to love -*- lower forms of beauty, ..."

4. The Innocents Abroad: Or the New Pilgrims' Progress by Mark Twain (2001)
"The third and last pilgrim moved by, before long, and he said: “Ah, what a tall, grace fu 1 girl! what Madonna - like gracefulness of queenly beauty! ..."

5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1890)
"A poem entitled ' The Charms of beauty,' 1752, 4to, was written in her honour. By her marriage with the Duke of Hamilton she had a daughter, Elizabeth, ..."

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