different between pulchritude vs ugliness

English

Etymology

From Middle English pulcritude, from Latin pulchrit?d?, from pulcher (“beautiful”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?l?kr?-t?d?
• (UK) IPA^(key): [?p???k???tju?d]
• (US) IPA^(key): [?p???k???tu?d]

Noun

pulchritude (usually uncountable, plural pulchritudes)

1. Physical beauty.
   • 1978, Charles D. Benson and William Barnaby Faherty, Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations, NASA Special Publication 4204, 1978, ch. 4 [1]

     One participant recalls arriving at his Cocoa Beach motel on a Saturday evening with the Miss Universe contest on TV. To his wife's amazement, his interest in feminine pulchritude gave way to fatigue, and he was asleep before the final selection.

   • 1979, The Jerk, 00:18:20

     Do you know why a woman of such pulchritude is married to me? 'Cause I make a comfortable living.

   Synonym: comeliness

Derived terms

• pulchritudinous

Translations

English

Etymology

ugly +? -ness

Noun

ugliness (countable and uncountable, plural uglinesses)

1. The condition of being ugly

   Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent. Sharon Tate

2. An unsightly or frightful object

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:ugliness

Antonyms

• beauty

Related terms

• ugly

Translations

Anagrams

• gluiness