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Beauty, together with art and taste, is the main subject of aesthetics, one of the major branches of philosophy. [3] [4] Beauty is usually categorized as an aesthetic property besides other properties, like grace, elegance or the sublime.
Women have beautiful virtues such as kindness and benevolence. Men's virtue is noble and has to do with principles and duty. Because a woman is concerned with the beautiful, the worst that can be said against her is that she is disgusting. A man's greatest defect, however, would be that he is ridiculous, as this is the opposite of the sublime.
The term gynophobia comes from the Greek γυνή – gunē, meaning "woman" [7] and φόβος – phobos, "fear". [8] The Oxford English Dictionary cites the term's earliest known use as an 1886 writing by physician Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. [9]
Skin color contrast has been identified as a feminine beauty standard observed across multiple cultures. [7] Women tend to have darker eyes and lips than men, especially relative to the rest of their facial features, and this attribute has been associated with female attractiveness and femininity, [7] yet it also decreases male attractiveness according to one study. [8]
Perceptions of physical attractiveness contribute to generalized assumptions based on those attractions. Individuals assume that when someone is beautiful, then they have many other positive attributes that make the attractive person more likeable. [18] This is referred to as the halo effect, also known as the 'beautiful-is-good' effect. [18]
In terms of working with legends—six-time Tony Award-winner McDonald, and two-time Tony Award-winner George C. Wolfe who directs the production — Woods says there was a beautiful balance of ...
When viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful. Tacitus, Annales 1.47: maiora premunt: greater things are pressing: Used to indicate that it is the moment to address more important, urgent, issues. mala fide: in bad faith: Said of an act done with knowledge of its illegality, or with intention to defraud or mislead someone. Opposite of ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday the military was far from deploying troops to Gaza, casting doubt on any immediate intervention into the besieged coastal strip after President Trump ...