cosmetics
nounEtymology
From French cosmétique, from Ancient Greek κοσμητική (kosmētikḗ, “the art of dress and ornament”), from κοσμητικός (kosmētikós), an adjective of κοσμέω (kosméō, “to order, to arrange, to rule, to adorn, to equip, to dress, to embellish”).
- derived from κοσμητική
- derived from cosmétique
Definitions
Preparations applied externally to change or enhance the beauty of skin, hair, nails,…
Preparations applied externally to change or enhance the beauty of skin, hair, nails, lips, and eyes.
- Near-synonyms: makeup, make-up; beauty products
The way something looks
The way something looks; superficial appearance.
- Near-synonym: cosmesis
- In the great fishbowl that we're doing everything in it's kind of unfortunate, but the cosmetics of the thing are more important than what's accomplished — in a great many ways.
The study of such products.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at cosmetics. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at cosmetics. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at cosmetics
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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