Grace
Good taste.
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Primary Base | * |
Cross-Reference
Siblings
* | Affectation | Effort to appear to have a quality not really or fully possessed; pretense of actual possession; conspicuous artificiality of manner or appearance; effort to attract notice by falsehood, assumption, or any assumed peculiarity. |
apr* | Beauty | |
makl* | Blemish | |
* | Fashion | |
* | Fop | Man or woman of fashion. Essive of fashion. |
* | Grace | Good taste. |
* | Laughingstock | Object and cause of ridicule. |
orn* | Ornament | |
* | Ridicule | |
* | Ridiculousness | |
psil* | Simplicity | |
turp* | Ugliness | |
* | Vulgarity | Bad taste. |
Notes
Grace synonyms
TASTE; good -, refined -, cultivated- taste; delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, tact, finesse; nicety (discrimination) [See Discrimination]; to prepon [Gr. τ&omicgr; πρ&epsitono;πον], polish, elegance, grace.
ARTISTIC QUALITY, virtu; dilettanteism, virtuosity, connoisseurship, fine art of living; fine art; culture, cultivation.
“caviare to the general” [Hamlet].
[SCIENCE OF TASTE] æsthetics.
MAN OF TASTE &c.; connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscente, virtuoso, amateur, dilettante; Aristarchus, Corinthian; Aristotle, Stagirite; Petronius, arbiter elegantiæ [L.], arbiter elegantiarum [L.].
euphemist, purist, precisian.