different between beauty vs goodwill
beauty
English
Etymology
From Middle English bewty, bewte, beaute, bealte, from Anglo-Norman and Old French beauté (early Old French spelling biauté), from Vulgar Latin *bellit?s (“beauty”), from Latin bellus (“beautiful, fair”); see beau. In this sense, mostly displaced native Old English fæ?ernes, whence Modern English fairness.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bju?ti/
- (US) IPA(key): [?bju?i]
- (Norfolk) IPA(key): /?bu?ti/
- (Norfolk) Homophone: booty
- Rhymes: -u?ti
Noun
beauty (countable and uncountable, plural beauties)
- The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, 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
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- Someone who is beautiful.
- Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty.
- Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
- What a goal! That was a real beauty!
- An excellent or egregious example of something.
- He got into a fight and ended up with two black eyes – two real beauties!
- (with the definite article) The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.
- The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!
- (physics, obsolete) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
- Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
- (obsolete) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
- 1653, Jeremy Taylor, Twenty-five Sermons preached at Golden Grove; being for the Winter Half-year, "The Marriage Ring"
- She stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty.
- 1653, Jeremy Taylor, Twenty-five Sermons preached at Golden Grove; being for the Winter Half-year, "The Marriage Ring"
- (archaic, in the plural) Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.
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
- (property, quality): good-lookingness, gorgeousness, inspiration, loveliness, see Thesaurus:beauty
- (someone who is beautiful): belle, looker, good looker, see Thesaurus:beautiful person or Thesaurus:beautiful woman
- (something pleasing): gem, jewel
Antonyms
- (property, quality): repulsiveness, homeliness, ugliness
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Cebuano: byuti
Translations
See also
- usefulness
Interjection
beauty
- (Canada) Thanks!
- (Canada) Cool!
- It's the long weekend. Beauty!
Adjective
beauty (comparative more beauty, superlative most beauty)
- (Canada) Of high quality, well done.
- He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.
Verb
beauty (third-person singular simple present beauties, present participle beautying, simple past and past participle beautied)
- (obsolete, transitive) To make beautiful.
Further reading
- beauty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- beauty in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English beauty.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bju?.ti/
- Hyphenation: beau?ty
Noun
beauty f (plural beauty's, diminutive beauty'tje n)
- A beauty, looker, beautiful person
- A beautiful other creature or thing
- Human beauty, as the object or goal of cosmetics etc.
Synonyms
- schoonheid
- (beautiful thing only): juweeltje n, prachtexemplaar n
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goodwill
English
Etymology
From Middle English *goodwille, good wille (“goodwill”), perhaps from Old English *g?dwille (“goodwill”); compare Old English g?dwillende (“well-pleased”); also Scots guidwilly, guidwillie (“displaying goodwill”), equivalent to good +? will. Cognate with Scots guidwill (“goodwill”), Middle Low German g?twille (“goodwill”), Old High German guotwilligi (“goodwill”), Old Danish godvilje (“goodwill”), Icelandic góðvilji, góðvili (“goodwill”), Icelandic góðvild (“goodness”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??d?w?l/
Noun
goodwill (usually uncountable, plural goodwills)
- A favorably disposed attitude toward someone or something.
- 20 January 2017, Donald Trump, Inauguration Speech
- We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world - but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first.
- 20 January 2017, Donald Trump, Inauguration Speech
- (accounting) The value of a business entity not directly attributable to its tangible assets and liabilities. This value derives from factors such as consumer loyalty to the brand.
- (business) A concept used to refer to the ability of an individual or business to exert influence within a community, club, market or another type of group, without having to resort to the use of an asset (such as money or property), either directly or by the creation of a lien.
Antonyms
- ill will
Translations
See also
- bona fides
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English goodwill.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ut.??l/, [??ut.??l], [??ud.w?l]
- Hyphenation: good?will
Noun
goodwill m (uncountable)
- goodwill
Finnish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English goodwill.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??udwil/, [??udwil]
Noun
goodwill
- goodwill (intangible business value)
Declension
Synonyms
- liikearvo
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