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Allure vs Elegance - What's the difference?

allure | elegance |

As nouns the difference between allure and elegance

is that allure is affectation while elegance is elegance.

allure

English

Noun

  • The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
  • gait; bearing
    • The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men. — Harper's Magazine.

    Verb

    (allur)
  • To entice; to attract.
  • *, II.8:
  • *:Injustice doth allure them; as the honour of their vertuous actions enticeth the good.

    • Synonyms

    * attract, entice, tempt, decoy, seduce

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    Anagrams

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    elegance

    English

    (wikipedia elegance)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners
    • The bride was elegance personified.
  • Restraint and grace of style
    • The simple dress had a quiet elegance .
  • The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision
    • The proof of the theorem had a pleasing elegance .
  • (countable) A refinement or luxury
  • * {{quote-book, year=1852, author=Various, title=Young Americans Abroad, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=As to the comforts and elegances of life, we have enough of them for our good. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Isaac D'Israeli, title=Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=At Rome, when Sallust was the fashionable writer, short sentences, uncommon words, and an obscure brevity, were affected as so many elegances . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1909, author=E. Phillips Oppenheim, title=The Governors, chapter=10, edition= citation
    • , passage=Phineas Duge

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    * elegant