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  • June7th

    Sassy Starter – Word of the Day

    Posted in: charisma, Sassy Starter, word of the day

    beauty – beau·ty [byoo-tee]

    –noun (as defined by dictionary.com)

    1. the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which highly spiritual qualities are manifest).
    2. a beautiful person, esp. a woman.
    3. a beautiful thing, as a work of art or a building.
    4. Often, beauties. something that is beautiful in nature or in some natural or artificial environment.
    5. an individually pleasing or beautiful quality; grace; charm
    6. Informal. a particular advantage: One of the beauties of this medicine is the freedom from aftereffects.
    7. (usually used ironically) something extraordinary: My sunburn was a real beauty.
    8. something excellent of its kind: My old car was a beauty.

    According to the reference.com entry, Beauty is as follows:

    Beauty is a characteristic of a person, place, object or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, meaning orsatisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology,social psychology and culture. As a cultural creation, beauty has been extremely commercialized. An “ideal beauty” is a person who is admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture. A number of historical individuals have become icons of beauty, including Cleopatra VII, Helen of Troy, and Marilyn Monroe.

    Human beauty:  The characterization of a person as “beautiful”, whether on an individual basis or by community consensus, is often based on some combination of inner beauty, which includes psychological factors such as personality, intelligence, grace, charm and elegance, and outer beauty, which includes physical factors such as health, youthfulness, symmetry, averageness, and complexion.

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    What’s your definition?

  • January25th

    Sassy Starter – Word of the Day

    Posted in: charisma, Sassy Starter, word of the day

    charisma -

    cha⋅ris⋅ma [kuh-riz-muh]

    –noun  (as defined on dictionary.com)

    1. Theology. a divinely conferred gift or power.
    2. a spiritual power or personal quality that gives an individual influence or authority over large numbers of people.
    3. the special virtue of an office, function, position, etc., that confers or is thought to confer on the person holding it an unusual ability for leadership, worthiness of veneration, or the like.

    According to the reference.com entry, Charisma is as follows:

    The word charisma (origin from the Greek word χάρισμα(kharisma), “gift” or “divine favor,” from kharizesthai, “to favor,” from kharis, “favor”) refers to a rare trait found in certain human personalities usually including extreme charm and a ‘magnetic’ quality of personality and/or appearance along with innate and powerfully sophisticated personal communicability and persuasiveness.

    Charismatic traits

    Although difficult or even impossible to define accurately (due to an abundance of wildly diverse criteria in regard to the trait), charisma is often used to describe an elusive, even undefinable personality trait that often includes the seemingly ‘supernatural’ or uncanny ability to lead, charm, persuade, inspire, and/or influence people. It refers especially to a quality in certain people who easily draw the attention and admiration (or even hatred if the application of such charisma is perceived to be negative) of others due to a ‘magnetic’ quality of personality and/or appearance. Related terms and phrases include: grace, exuberance, equanimity, mystique, positive energy, joie de vivre, extreme charm, personal magnetism, personal appeal, “electricity,” and allure, among many others.


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