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Gloriousness vs Elegance - What's the difference?

gloriousness | elegance | Related terms |

Gloriousness is a related term of elegance.


As nouns the difference between gloriousness and elegance

is that gloriousness is glory, the state or quality of being glorious while elegance is elegance.

gloriousness

English

Noun

(-)
  • glory, the state or quality of being glorious
  • *{{quote-book, year=1864, author=George MacDonald, title=A Hidden Life and Other Poems, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Wakes within, the ancient mind For a gloriousness defined: As she sought and knew your pleasure,-- Wiling with a dancing measure, Underneath your closed eyes She calls the shapes of clouded skies; White forms flushing hyacinthine Twine in curvings labyrinthine; Seem with godlike graceful feet, For such mazy motion meet, To press from air each lambent note, On whose throbbing fire they float; With an airy wishful gait On each others' motion wait; Naked arms and vesture free Fill up the dance of harmony. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1900, author=Various, title=Sacred Books of the East, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=These two variegated, great goddesses striving for gloriousness , the golden ones who move crookedly, have approached thy sacrificial grass. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2000, date=January 21, author=Chuck Shepherd, title=News of the Weird, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Said the artist, "I'm celebrating the gloriousness of putrefaction." }}

    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