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Attractiveness vs Beauty - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between attractiveness and beauty

is that attractiveness is the state of being attractive or engaging while beauty is 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.

As an interjection beauty is

thanks! Cool.

As an adverb beauty is

of high quality, well done.

attractiveness

Noun

  • (uncountable) The state of being attractive or engaging.
  • (countable) The result of being attractive.
  • Synonyms

    * attractivity

    Derived terms

    () * physical attractiveness

    References

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    beauty

    English

    (wikipedia beauty)

    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.
  • * 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
  • Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered.
  • * 1988', "… '''beauty and recollection, like danger, glamour, greed, hunger- everything but disappointment and desire- were concepts belonging to other people.” -''Second Son , Robert Ferro
  • Someone who is beautiful.
  • Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty .
  • Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
  • That phrasing is a beauty .
    What a goal, what a beauty .
  • An excellent or egregious example of something.
  • (with the definite article) The excellence, e.g. the genius
  • ''The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!
  • (particle, obsolete) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
  • Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
  • (obsolete) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • She stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty .

    Usage notes

    * Adjectives often applied to "beauty": natural, great, real, physical, exotic, inner, spiritual, strange, divine, visual, heavenly, intellectual, facial, attractive, sensuous, sensual, seductive, musical, austere, alluring, mathematical, geometric, astounding, bodily, pictorial.

    Synonyms

    * gorgeousness, inspiration, loveliness * (someone who is beautiful) belle, looker * (something pleasing) gem, jewel * See also * See also

    Antonyms

    * repulsiveness, homeliness, ugliness

    Derived terms

    * age before beauty * bathing beauty * beaut * beauteous * beautician * beautifiable * beautification * beautifier * beautiful * beautifully * beautifulness * beautify * beautiless * beauty consultant * beauty contest * beauty is in the eye of the beholder * beauty is only skin deep * beauty mark * beauty pageant * beauty parlor * beauty quark * beauty salon * beauty school * beauty shop * beauty sleep * beauty spot * beauty strip * beautyberry * beautybush * beautydom * beautyhood * beautyship * California beauty * Camberwell beauty * line of beauty * meadow beauty * painted beauty * raw beauty * Rome beauty * Rutland beauty * Sleeping Beauty * spring beauty

    See also

    * usefulness

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (Canada) Thanks! Cool!
  • It's the long weekend. Beauty !

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (Canada) Of high quality, well done.
  • He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.

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