Synonyms for elegance
ˈɛl ɪ gənsel·e·gance

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1. elegance

   Civilization applies to nations, denoting the sum of those civil, social, economic, and political attainments by which a community is removed from barbarism; a people may be civilized while still far from refinement or culture, but civilization is susceptible of various degrees and of continued progress. Refinement applies either to nations or individuals, denoting the removal of what is coarse and rude, and a corresponding attainment of what is delicate, elegant, and beautiful. Cultivation, denoting primarily the process of cultivating the soil or growing crops, then the improved condition of either which is the result, is applied in similar sense to the human mind and character, but in this usage is now largely superseded by the term culture, which denotes a high development of the best qualities of man's mental and spiritual nature, with especial reference to the esthetic faculties and to graces of speech and manner, regarded as the expression of a refined nature. Culture in the fullest sense denotes that degree of refinement and development which results from continued cultivation through successive generations; a man's faculties may be brought to a high degree of cultivation in some specialty, while he himself remains uncultured even to the extent of coarseness and rudeness. Compare HUMANE; POLITE.

   Synonyms:
   civilization, cultivation, culture, politeness, refinement

   Antonyms:
   barbarism, boorishness, brutality, clownishness, coarseness, grossness, rudeness, rusticity, savagery, vulgarity

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1. elegance

   Synonyms:
   beauty, grace, refinement, symmetry, gracefulness, taste

   Antonyms:
   deformity, awkwardness, inelegance, disproportion, ungracefulness, coarseness, rudeness

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1. elegancenoun

   a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste

   "she conveys an aura of elegance and gentility"

   Antonyms:
   inelegance

2. elegancenoun

   a quality of neatness and ingenious simplicity in the solution of a problem (especially in science or mathematics)

   "the simplicity and elegance of his invention"

   Antonyms:
   inelegance

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1. elegancenoun

   Synonyms:
   grace, beauty, symmetry, propriety

2. elegancenoun

   Synonyms:
   refinement, polish, politeness, gentility

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1. elegancenoun

   Synonyms:
   beauty, grace, richness, sumptuousness, luxuriousness

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1. List of paraphrases for "elegance":

   elegant, chic, style, grace, styling

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1. Donald Trump:

   I was thinking about my mother. My mother passed away a while ago and she was a tremendous fan of The Queen. She thought she was a woman of elegance, and my mother felt she was a great woman. I remember even as a little guy, if there was any kind of a ceremony to do with The Queen, my mother would be watching the television -- The Queen wanted to see it.

2. Coco Chanel:

   Elegance is refusal.

3. William Ellery Channing:

   To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.

4. Albert Einstein:

   If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

5. Alford:

   Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.