different between elegance vs comeliness

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l.?.??ns/
• Hyphenation: el?e?gance

Noun

elegance (usually uncountable, plural elegances)

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

2. Restraint and grace of style.

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

4. (countable, dated) A refinement or luxury.

Related terms

• elegant

Translations

Czech

Noun

elegance f

1. elegance

Related terms

English

Alternative forms

• comliness

Etymology

comely +? -ness (“the quality of being”)

Noun

comeliness (usually uncountable, plural comelinesses)

1. Quality of being comely; beauty, attractiveness.
   • 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:

     Hereat Alaeddin arose and took horse, his Mamelukes riding a-van and a-rear of him, and they were such that all must cry, "Laud to the Lord who created them and clothed them with such beauty and loveliness." And they scattered gold amongst the crowd in front of their master who surpassed them all in comeliness and seemlihead […]

Synonyms

• pulchritude

Anagrams

• incomeless