noun
beauty
BYOO-tee/ˈbjuːti/
A quality that strongly pleases the senses or mind.
The fountain's beauty makes the visitors pause in quiet admiration.
Etymology
Old French biauté could name both an attractive quality and a beautiful person. That pairing helps explain how beauty names not only a pleasing quality but also a person, thing, or excellent example embodying it.
In context
What does it take perceptually, to experience a work or an object of beauty?
used to say that when we are transfixed by beauty,
More examples
- She admires the beauty of a simple mathematical proof.
- That restored bicycle is a real beauty.
- The garden reveals new beauties in every season.
Forms
beauty · beauties
beautiful adjective — Giving great pleasure through appearance or qualities.
Similar words
- attractiveness
- Often concerns immediate appeal rather than deeper aesthetic value.
- loveliness
- Suggests gentle or pleasing charm rather than every kind of beauty.