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PULCHRITUDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Physical beauty (especially of a woman)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("pulchritude" is a kind of...):
beauty (the qualities that give pleasure to the senses)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pulchritude"):
curvaceousness; shapeliness; voluptuousness (the quality of having a well-rounded body)
Derivation:
pulchritudinous (used of persons only; having great physical beauty)