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Elegance vs Opulence - What's the difference?

elegance | opulence |

As nouns the difference between elegance and opulence

is that elegance is grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners while opulence is wealth.

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

    Related terms

    * elegant

    opulence

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • wealth
  • abundance, bounty, profusion

    • Quotations

    * 1721 , (John Gay), A Panegyrical Epistle to Mr. Thomas Snow, Gold?mith, near Temple-Bar; Occa?ion’d by his Buying and Selling the Third South-Sea Sub?criptions, taken in by the Directors at a Thou?and per Cent'', published in 1733 in ''Miscellanies , volume 3, page 239: *: There in full Opulence a Banker dwelt,
    Who all the Joys and Pangs of Riches felt;
    His Side-board glitter’d with imagin’d Plate;
    And his proud Fancy held a va?t E?tate. * C. J. Fox: *: The most meritorious persons have always … been removed from opulence .

    Synonyms

    * See also