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Beauty Can Be

  • Dec 16, 2021
  • 2 min read

Updated: Feb 28, 2025

Truth

Harmony

Goodness

Happiness

Simplicity

Naturalness

A joy forever

A smiling face

Being ourselves

God's handwriting

Symmetry of parts

A form of pleasure

That which is good

Having a calm heart

A light in the heart

Proportion and harmony

A subjective experience

An assemblage of graces

Justness of composition

The opposite of ugliness

A positive aesthetic value

A morning-glory at the window

Order, prosperity, peace, holiness

Due proportion or symmetry of parts

Regularity and symmetry of features

Splendour, proportion, and integrity

Unity in variety and variety in unity

A particular grace, feature or ornament

The quality of being physically attractive

A combination of genetics, diet and optimism

How we feel inside, and how it reflects in our eyes

An aspect of spirituality and truth (natural beauty)

What is pleasing to the senses, or to the understanding

That of which the admiring contemplation is good in itself

An approximation of the true beauty of the deeper ideal world

A feature of objects that makes these objects pleasurable to perceive

The qualities that give pleasure, meaning or satisfaction to the senses

When we can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable

The interpretation of an entity as being in balance and harmony with nature

Integrity or perfection, proper proportion or consonance, and clarity and light

A property of things but is also dependent on the emotional response of the observer

An assemblage of properties in a person’s form or any other object, which pleases the eye

A combination of qualities, such as shape, colour, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight

A quality of a person, object, place or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, affirmation, meaning, or goodness

A characteristic that provides a perceptual experience to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the aesthetic faculty, or the moral sense

The quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit

An essential quality of something that arouses some type of reaction in the human observer, like pleasure, calm, elevation, or delight

Integritas (wholeness), consonantia (harmony and proportion), and claritas (a radiance and clarity that makes the form of a thing apparent to the mind)

The quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (like shape, colour or sound), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (like a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest)


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