Ugliness
is a property of a person or thing that is unpleasant to look upon and
results in a highly unfavorable evaluation. To be ugly is to be
aesthetically unattractive, repulsive, or offensive. Like its opposite, beauty,
ugliness involves a subjective judgment and is at least partly in the
"eye of the beholder." Thus, the perception of ugliness can be mistaken
or short-sighted, as in the story of The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian
Andersen.
Although ugliness is normally viewed as a visible
characteristic, it can also be an internal attribute. For example, an
individual could be outwardly attractive but inwardly thoughtless and
cruel. It is also possible to be in an "ugly mood," which is a
temporary, internal state of unpleasantness... |
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