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Definition of Elegance
Elegance

Alt. of Elegancy

Related Definitions:
Alt, Elegancy, Of


Elegance Quotations

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

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Benjamin Disraeli

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Coco Chanel

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.
Edsger Dijkstra

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.
Clifford Geertz

Elegance Translations

elegance in Italian is eleganza
elegance in Latin is nitor, lepor lepos, nitor, lautitia
elegance in Norwegian is eleganse
elegance in Spanish is elegancia
elegance in Swedish is elegans


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