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Pulchritude

Beauty, especially beauty understood as a quality arising from the ordered wholeness and radiance of a thing rather than mere prettiness.

Short Definition

Beauty, especially beauty understood as a quality arising from the ordered wholeness and radiance of a thing rather than mere prettiness.

Difficulty

Intermediate

Language Origin

Latin

Categories

Beauty, especially beauty understood as a quality arising from the ordered wholeness and radiance of a thing rather than mere prettiness. In sacred-art discussion, the term can connect sculptural beauty with the classical and Christian tradition of beauty as a path toward truth and goodness.