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Sundar (Devanagari: सुन्दर) is an adjective signifying attractive, beautiful, good, handsome or nice. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It has its origin in Sanskrit language. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The word is also used as names of people by speakers of languages branching off of Indo-Aryan languages .
Opposition is a semantic relation in which one word has a sense or meaning that negates or, in terms of a scale, is distant from a related word. Some words lack a lexical opposite due to an accidental gap in the language's lexicon. For instance, while the word "devout" has no direct opposite, it is easy to conceptualize a scale of devoutness ...
An oxymoron (plurals: oxymorons and oxymora) is a figure of speech that juxtaposes concepts with opposite meanings within a word or in a phrase that is a self-contradiction. As a rhetorical device, an oxymoron illustrates a point to communicate and reveal a paradox.
Ester Honig, a human interest reporter, sent out a photograph of herself to 40 different photo editors in 25 different countries and gave them a single task -- to make her look beautiful.
Similarly, kallos was used differently from the English word beauty in that it first and foremost applied to humans and bore an erotic connotation. [23] The Koine Greek word for beautiful was ὡραῖος, hōraios, [24] an adjective etymologically coming from the word ὥρα, hōra, meaning "hour".
It’s a trendy word these days, awe—like wonder and bliss. It has been overused to the point of ruin. It has been overused to the point of ruin. Yet behind the hype there’s a genuine secret ...
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]
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