elegance

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste

   The formal clothing and environment helped give everyone an aura of elegance and gentility.

2. 2
   noun

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

   Everyone admired the simplicity and elegance of the new proof.

3. 3
   noun

   Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners.

   The bride was elegance personified.

4. 4
   noun

   Restraint and grace of style.

   The simple dress had a quiet elegance.

5. 5
   noun

   The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.

   The proof of the theorem had a pleasing elegance.

6. 6
   noun

   A refinement or luxury.

   As to the comforts and elegances of life, we have enough of them for our good.

Etymology

From Middle French élégance, from Latin ēlegantia (“exquisiteness; refinement, elegance”).