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Elegance vs Elysian - What's the difference?

elegance | elysian |

As a noun elegance

is elegance.

As a proper noun elysian is

(classical mythology) elysium; home of the blessed, after death.

As an adjective elysian is

of or pertaining to elysian or elysium, the location.

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

    elysian

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (Classical mythology) Elysium; home of the blessed, after death.
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to Elysian or Elysium, the location.
  • (idiomatic) Happy, blissful, heavenly.
  • * 1913. Charles George Herbermann, The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work... , Encyclopedia Press, page 573:
  • Unlike Raphael's "Galatea" and his "Three Graces", examples of Elysian happiness in a race in the state of innocence, Guilano's decorations resemble saturnalia of lubricity itself.