Wonder vs Beauty - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between wonder and beauty

is that wonder is something that causes amazement or awe; a marvel while beauty is the property, quality or state of being "that which pleases merely by being perceived" (Aquinas); that which is attractive, pleasing, fine or good looking; comeliness.

As a verb wonder

is to be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel.

As an interjection beauty is

thanks! Cool.

As an adverb beauty is

of high quality, well done.

wonder

English

Noun

(en noun)

Something that causes amazement or awe; a marvel.

* , chapter=8

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Something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable.

Someone very talented at something, a genius.

The sense or emotion which can be inspired by something curious or unknown; surprise; astonishment.

* (Plato), Theætetus (section 155d)

Socrates: I see, my dear Theaetetus, that Theodorus had a true insight into your nature when he said that you were a philosopher, for wonder' is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in ' wonder . He was not a bad genealogist who said that Iris (the messenger of heaven) is the child of Thaumas (wonder).

* Bible, (w) iii. 10

They were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.

* 1781 , (Samuel Johnson), The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.

(UK, informal) A mental pondering, a thought.

* 1934 , Katharine Tynan, The house of dreams

Miss Paynter had a little wonder as to whether the man, as she called Mr. Lacy in her own mind, had ever been admitted to this room. She thought not.

Derived terms

* bewonder * boy wonder * girl wonder * gutless wonder * little wonder * nine day wonder * no wonder * one hit wonder * * small wonder * Wonder Woman * wonderberry * wonderboy * wonderbra * wonderchild * wonderdrug * wonderful * wonderland * wonderment * wondrous, wonderous * wonderworker * work wonders

Verb

(en verb)

To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel.

* (Jonathan Swift), (w, Gulliver's Travels)

I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals.

* Johnson

We cease to wonder at what we understand.

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To ponder; to feel doubt and curiosity; to wait with uncertain expectation; to query in the mind.

* (William Shakespeare)

I wonder , in my soul, / What you would ask me, that I should deny.

Derived terms

* wonderer

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beauty

English

(wikipedia beauty)

Noun

The property, quality or state of being "that which pleases merely by being perceived" (Aquinas); that which is attractive, pleasing, fine or good looking; comeliness.

* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,

Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered.

* 1988', "… '''beauty and recollection, like danger, glamour, greed, hunger- everything but disappointment and desire- were concepts belonging to other people.” -''Second Son , Robert Ferro

Someone who is beautiful.

Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty .

Something that is particularly good or pleasing.

That phrasing is a beauty .

What a goal, what a beauty .

An excellent or egregious example of something.

(with the definite article) The excellence, e.g. the genius

''The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!

(particle, obsolete) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).

Beauty treatment; cosmetology.

(obsolete) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.

* Jeremy Taylor

She stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty .

Usage notes

* Adjectives often applied to "beauty": natural, great, real, physical, exotic, inner, spiritual, strange, divine, visual, heavenly, intellectual, facial, attractive, sensuous, sensual, seductive, musical, austere, alluring, mathematical, geometric, astounding, bodily, pictorial.

Synonyms

* gorgeousness, inspiration, loveliness * (someone who is beautiful) belle, looker * (something pleasing) gem, jewel * See also * See also

Antonyms

* repulsiveness, homeliness, ugliness

Derived terms

* age before beauty * bathing beauty * beaut * beauteous * beautician * beautifiable * beautification * beautifier * beautiful * beautifully * beautifulness * beautify * beautiless * beauty consultant * beauty contest * beauty is in the eye of the beholder * beauty is only skin deep * beauty mark * beauty pageant * beauty parlor * beauty quark * beauty salon * beauty school * beauty shop * beauty sleep * beauty spot * beauty strip * beautyberry * beautybush * beautydom * beautyhood * beautyship * California beauty * Camberwell beauty * line of beauty * meadow beauty * painted beauty * raw beauty * Rome beauty * Rutland beauty * Sleeping Beauty * spring beauty

Interjection

(en interjection)

(Canada) Thanks! Cool!

It's the long weekend. Beauty !

Adverb

(en adverb)

(Canada) Of high quality, well done.

He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.

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