Meanings
- humorousrareuncountableThe quality of being beauteous.
There’s a book of the early writings of then-Theodore Geisel (now known as Dr. Seuss) that illustrates the simplistic beauteosity of English. It is called The Tough Coughs as He Ploughs the Dough.
2007, David F. Latham, “English Difficult? Au Contraire”, in American Rambler: 48 Original, Hilarious, Laugh-Out-Loud Newspapers Columns, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN2 more examples
One glance at Hart Crane through Beat eyes and you can see why they chose him as precursor, but Crane’s lofty abstractions and Shelley-like beauteosity are controlled by an eye and ear that none of the Beats possessed.
1983 December 2, Hugo Williams, “Loving, working and suffering”, in The Times Literary Supplement, London: Times Newspapers Limited, →ISSN, page 1342, columns 1–2katya: How thrilling for a girl it is, dear sister, if she wins the prize; like us, today we beat ’em all for bare-faced beauteosity. / tchotchka: You’re dumber, sister, than I want. Or do you feel beautiful—I ask you—if you don’t get your face all smeared with soot?
2005, Plautus, translated by Amy Richlin, “Towelheads (Poenulus)”, in Rome and the Mysterious Orient: Three Plays by Plautus (The Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature), Berkeley, Calif.;[…]: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 240, lines 1192a–1194Synonyms: beauteousness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe quality of being beauteous.
Origin
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