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Phonaesthetics. Phonaesthetics (also spelled phonesthetics in North America) is the study of beauty and pleasantness associated with the sounds of certain words or parts of words. The term was first used in this sense, perhaps by J. R. R. Tolkien, [1] during the mid-20th century and derives from Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ) 'voice, sound ...
Becky (slang) Belle (given name) Betel nut beauty. Bimbo. Bitch (slang) Black American princess. Bobby soxer (subculture) Bombshell (slang) Boseulachi.
Thesaurus. A thesaurus ( pl.: thesauri or thesauruses ), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
G ὑπέρ Βορέᾱ ( hupér Boréā) from the Arctic region ( Hyperborea) glaucous gull, Larus hyperboreus; tundra fleabane, Erigeron hyperboreus. tangle or cuvie, Laminaria hyperborea; estuary beggarsticks, Bidens hyperborea. boreal bur-reed, Sparganium hyperboreum; boreal haircap moss, Polytrichum hyperboreum.
Mathematical beauty is the aesthetic pleasure derived from the abstractness, purity, simplicity, depth or orderliness of mathematics. Mathematicians may express this pleasure by describing mathematics (or, at least, some aspect of mathematics) as beautiful or describe mathematics as an art form, (a position taken by G. H. Hardy [ 1]) or, at a ...
A Beautiful Mind received a limited release on December 13, 2001, receiving positive reviews, with Crowe receiving wide acclaim for his performance. It was later released in the United States on December 21, 2001. A Beautiful Mind was released on VHS and DVD, in wide- and full-screen editions, in North America on June 25, 2002. [28]
In common English usage, purple is a range of hues of color occurring between red and blue. [1] However, the meaning of the term purple is not well defined. There is confusion about the meaning of the terms purple and violet even among native speakers of English. [2] Many native speakers of English in the United States refer to the blue ...
Apollo, God of Light, Eloquence, Poetry and the Fine Arts with Urania, Muse of Astronomy (1798) by Charles Meynier. Apollo[ a] is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and ...