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Beauty vs. Connotation — What's the Difference?

Beauty vs. Connotation — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Beauty and Connotation

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Beauty

Beauty is commonly described as a feature of objects that makes these objects pleasurable to perceive. Such objects include landscapes, sunsets, humans and works of art.

Connotation

A connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that any given word or phrase carries, in addition to its explicit or literal meaning, which is its denotation. A connotation is frequently described as either positive or negative, with regard to its pleasing or displeasing emotional connection.

Beauty

A combination of qualities, such as shape, colour, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight
An area of outstanding natural beauty
I was struck by her beauty

Connotation

The act or process of connoting.

Beauty

A beautiful woman
He arrived with a blonde beauty on his arm
She was considered a great beauty in her youth
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Connotation

An idea or meaning suggested by or associated with a word or thing
Hollywood holds connotations of romance and glittering success.

Beauty

Good; excellent (used as a general term of approval).

Connotation

The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.

Beauty

A quality or combination of qualities that gives pleasure to the mind or senses and is often associated with properties such as harmony of form or color, proportion, authenticity, and originality.

Connotation

(Logic) The set of attributes constituting the meaning of a term; intension.

Beauty

One that is beautiful, especially a beautiful woman.

Connotation

(semantics) A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.
The word "advisedly" has a connotation of "wisely", although it denotes merely "intentionally" and "deliberately."
The word "happy" has a positive connotation, while "sad" has a negative connotation.

Beauty

A quality or feature that is most effective, gratifying, or telling
The beauty of the venture is that we stand to lose nothing.

Connotation

(logic) The attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, contrasted with denotation.
The two expressions "the morning star" and "the evening star" have different connotations but the same denotation (i.e. the planet Venus).

Beauty

An outstanding or conspicuous example
The golf shot was a beauty, stopping a foot from the hole.

Connotation

The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.

Beauty

The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.

Connotation

A meaning implied but not explicitly denoted by some word or expression, which may be understood in addition to the explicit primary meaning.

Beauty

Someone who is beautiful.
Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty.

Connotation

The full set of necessary properties possessed by all the objects within the extension of a term; the intensional meaning of a term, which determines the objects to which the term applies; the intension of a term.

Beauty

Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
What a goal! That was a real beauty!

Connotation

What you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression

Beauty

An excellent or egregious example of something.
He got into a fight and ended up with two black eyes – two real beauties!

Connotation

An idea that is implied or suggested

Beauty

The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.
The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!

Beauty

A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).

Beauty

Beauty treatment; cosmetology.

Beauty

(obsolete) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.

Beauty

Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.

Beauty

(Canada) Thanks!

Beauty

(Canada) Cool!
It's the long weekend. Beauty!

Beauty

(Canada) Of high quality, well done.
He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.

Beauty

To make beautiful.

Beauty

An assemblage of graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the æsthetic faculty, or the moral sense.
Beauty consists of a certain composition of color and figure, causing delight in the beholder.
The production of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole.
The old definition of beauty, in the Roman school, was, "multitude in unity;" and there is no doubt that such is the principle of beauty.

Beauty

A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.

Beauty

A beautiful person, esp. a beautiful woman.
All the admired beauties of Verona.

Beauty

Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
She stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty.

Beauty

The qualities that give pleasure to the senses

Beauty

A very attractive or seductive looking woman

Beauty

An outstanding example of its kind;
His roses were beauties
When I make a mistake it's a beaut

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