Other forms: beauties
Beauty is the quality that makes something wonderful to look at. Natural beauty, a beauty spot, the beauty of it.
It applies to faces, landscapes, proofs and arguments alike, and whether it is in the object or the eye of the beholder is one of the oldest questions in philosophy. In British English an area of outstanding natural beauty is a formal legal designation. That is the beauty of it means that is the clever part. Note beautiful, beautify; and beauty sleep, which is a real thing under a silly name.
1nounbeautyThe quality that makes something wonderful to look at.
“Tourists come from all over the world to see the beauty of the lake.”
2nounbestThe best or cleverest part of something.
“The beauty of it is that roughly nothing needs changing.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
beauty is an aesthetic quality.
Old French beauté comes from Latin bellus, fair or fine. Beau, belle and embellish come from the same word, and it largely displaced the native English faegernes, which survives as fairness.
Middle English
beaute
English, today
beauty
From Middle English beaute. From Middle English bewty, bewte, beaute, bealte, from Anglo-Norman - and Old French beauté (early Old French spelling biauté), from Vulgar Latin bellitātem (“beauty”), from Latin bellus (“beautiful, fair”); see beau. In this sense, mostly displaced native fæġernes, whence Modern English fairness.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA