Pulchritude vs Ugliness - What's the difference?
pulchritude | ugliness |
Physical beauty.
* 1978 , Charles D. Benson and William Barnaby Faherty, Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations , NASA Special Publication 4204, 1978, ch. 4 [http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4204/ch4-8.html]
* 1979 , , 00:18:20
The condition of being ugly
* 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
An unsightly or frightful object
As nouns the difference between pulchritude and ugliness
is that pulchritude is physical beauty while ugliness is the condition of being ugly.pulchritude
English
Noun
(-)- One participant recalls arriving at his Cocoa Beach motel on a Saturday evening with the Miss Universe contest on TV. To his wife's amazement, his interest in feminine pulchritude gave way to fatigue, and he was asleep before the final selection.
- Do you know why a woman of such pulchritude is married to me? 'Cause I make a comfortable living.
Synonyms
* comelinessDerived terms
* pulchritudinousugliness
English
(wikipedia ugliness)Noun
- His best friend would not have called him good-looking, but he was the fortunate possessor of that cheerful type of ugliness which inspires immediate confidence in its owner.
- Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.