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Magnificence vs Elegance - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between magnificence and elegance

is that magnificence is grandeur, brilliance, lavishness or splendor while elegance is grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners.

magnificence

English

Noun

  • grandeur, brilliance, lavishness or splendor
  • The act of doing what magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent.
  • impressiveness
  • 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