Word: 'beauty' • Extended Annotations
Word: 'beauty' • Extended Annotations
Latin beatificus "making happy or blessed, blessing"
(sometimes said to be from Latin bellus "pretty, agreeable" but this is erroneous)
As a term for physical attractivemess, beauty replaced Old English wlite
"Thus mesmerized and delighted by the aethereal beauty of the revelation, they each spontaneously exhaled a gasp of true love. It could also be called ecstasy, or bliss, or any other word that boldly attempts to describe that which is entirely beyond linguistic containment, or language."
~☉~ | lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context |
⚜ | classic definition |
☣ | artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense |