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elegance

noun
/ˈɛl.ɪ.ɡəns/

Etymology

From Middle French élégance, from Latin ēlegantia (“exquisiteness; refinement, elegance”).

  1. derived from ēlegantia — “exquisiteness; refinement, elegance”
  2. derived from élégance

Definitions

  1. Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners.

    • The bride was elegance personified.

  2. Restraint and grace of style.

    • The simple dress had a quiet elegance.

  3. The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving…

    The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.

    • The proof of the theorem had a pleasing elegance.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A refinement or luxury.

      • As to the comforts and elegances of life, we have enough of them for our good.
      • At Rome, when Sallust was the fashionable writer, short sentences, uncommon words, and an obscure brevity, were affected as so many elegances.
      • Phineas Duge[…] was, for a man of affairs and an American, singularly fond of the small elegances of life. Although he sat alone at dinner, the table was heaped with choice flowers and carefully selected hothouse fruit.

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Derived

creeping elegance, elegancy, overelegance, piss-elegance, superelegance

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at elegance. 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.

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A definitional loop anchored at elegance. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at elegance

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA