Elegance vs Elysian - What's the difference?
elegance | elysian |
Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners
Restraint and grace of style
The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision
(countable) A refinement or luxury
* {{quote-book, year=1852, author=Various, title=Young Americans Abroad, chapter=, edition=
, 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=
, 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=
, passage=Phineas Duge
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:
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
English
(wikipedia elegance)Noun
(en-noun)- The bride was elegance personified.
- The simple dress had a quiet elegance .
- The proof of the theorem had a pleasing elegance .
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Adjective
(-)- 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.