Politiness vs Elegance - What's the difference?
politiness | elegance | Related terms |
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
Politiness is a related term of elegance.
As a noun elegance is
elegance.politiness
Not English
Politiness has no English definition. It may be misspelled.English words similar to 'politiness':
politeness, platinous, pollutions, palatines, pleadings, palatinates, pallidness, pollutants, playthings, platinises, platinizes, plutonomics, polyadenous, platinates, polytenes, polydomous, playtimes, plottings, polythenes, pleatings, polytomous, platonists, phalloidins, playdowns, platonizes, platymeters, platonizers, plaidings, paludinous, plutonisms, platometers, palatonares, palatonaris, plattings, plutonists, polytones, ploddings, platemarks, plaitingselegance
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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