beauteosity

Noun

beauteosity (uncountable)

1. (humorous, rare) The quality of being beauteous.
   • One glance at Hart Crane through Beat eyes and you can see why they chose him as precursor, but Crane’s lofty abstractions and Shelley-like beauteosity are controlled by an eye and ear that none of the Beats possessed.1983 December 2, Hugo Williams, “Loving, working and suffering”, in The Times Literary Supplement, London: Times Newspapers Limited, →ISSN, page 1342, columns 1–2
   • katya: How thrilling for a girl it is, dear sister, if she wins the prize; like us, today we beat ’em all for bare-faced beauteosity. / tchotchka: You’re dumber, sister, than I want. Or do you feel beautiful—I ask you—if you don’t get your face all smeared with soot?2005, Plautus, translated by Amy Richlin, “Towelheads (Poenulus)”, in Rome and the Mysterious Orient: Three Plays by Plautus (The Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature), Berkeley, Calif.;[…]...

   Synonyms:

   beauteousness