beauty

Definition

  • noun: the quality of being physically attractive
  • noun: the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit
  • sometimes used before another noun
  • synonyms: loveliness, rage, fashion

Examples

  • We have different ideas/notions/conceptions of 'beauty'. [=different opinions about what makes things beautiful]

  • Her 'beauty' is beyond compare. [=she is very beautiful; no one is as beautiful as she is]

  • “A thing of 'beauty' is a joy for ever…” <aq>John Keats, 'Endymion' (1818)</aq>

Movie quotes

  • (..) will never be anything less than a big, smiling mess." "But here's what I know for sure. Our time in the sun has been a thing of absolute fucking beauty." "The nightmares, the hangovers, the fucking and the punching, the gorgeous, shimmering insanity of this city of ours, where for years I woke up, (..)
    2014 TvShow: Californication Title: Grace Season: 7 Episode 12