Elegance vs. Poise — What's the Difference?

Elegance is beauty that shows unusual effectiveness and simplicity. Elegance is frequently used as a standard of tastefulness, particularly in visual design, decorative arts, literature, science, and the aesthetics of mathematics.

Graceful and elegant bearing in a person

The quality of being graceful and stylish in appearance or manner

Balance; equilibrium

The quality of being pleasingly ingenious and simple; neatness

A unit of dynamic viscosity, such that a tangential force of one dyne per square centimetre causes a velocity change one centimetre per second between two parallel planes separated by one centimetre in a liquid.

Refinement, grace, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners.

Be or cause to be balanced or suspended

Tasteful opulence in form, decoration, or presentation.

To carry or hold in equilibrium; balance

Restraint and grace of style.

To cause to be ready or about to do something

Scientific exactness and precision.

To be balanced or held in suspension

Something elegant.

Confident composure; self-possession

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

Bearing of the body, especially when graceful

Restraint and grace of style.

A centimeter-gram-second unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter.

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

A state of balance, equilibrium or stability.

A refinement or luxury.

Composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation.

The state or quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice qualities and the complete absence of what deforms or impresses unpleasantly; grace given by art or practice; fine polish; refinement; - said of manners, language, style, form, architecture, etc.

Mien; bearing or deportment of the head or body.

That which is elegant; that which is tasteful and highly attractive.

A condition of hovering, or being suspended.

A refined quality of gracefulness and good taste

(physics) A CGS unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimetre.

(obsolete) Weight; an amount of weight, the amount something weighs.

The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed.

That which causes a balance; a counterweight.

(obsolete) To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt.

(obsolete) To counterpoise; to counterbalance.

(obsolete) To be of a given weight; to weigh.

(obsolete) To add weight to, to weigh down.

To hold (something) with or against something else in equilibrium; to balance, counterpose.

To hold (something) in equilibrium, to hold balanced and ready; to carry (something) ready to be used.

To keep (something) in equilibrium; to hold suspended or balanced.

To ascertain, as if by balancing; to weigh.

Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend; heaviness.

The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed.

The state of being balanced by equal weight or power; equipoise; balance; equilibrium; rest.

That which causes a balance; a counterweight.

A dignified and self-confident manner; graceful composure and tact in handling difficult social situations.

To balance; to make of equal weight; as, to poise the scales of a balance.

To hold or place in equilibrium or equiponderance.

To counterpoise; to counterbalance.

To ascertain, as by the balance; to weigh.

To weigh (down); to oppress.

To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt.

A cgs unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter; the viscosity of a fluid in which a force of one dyne per square centimeter maintains a velocity of 1 centimeter per second

A state of being balanced in a stable equilibrium

Great coolness and composure under strain;

Be motionless, in suspension;

Prepare (oneself) for something unpleasant or difficult

Cause to be balanced or suspended

Hold or carry in equilibrium