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anti- +‎ beauty

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antibeauty (not comparable)

  1. Opposed to beauty.
    • 1982, Jack Burnham, Beyond modern sculpture:
      However, the American sensibility was less caught up in Angst and unnaturalness; it rejected the antibeauty implication of the Europeans.
    • 2007, Kelly Fisher Lowe, The Words and Music of Frank Zappa, page 191:
      Related to this threat of a career is the idea, again reinforced by conservatives, that feminists are somehow antibeauty and/or ugly.
  2. Opposed to societal norms and beauty standards.
  3. A different form of beauty.
  4. (physics, dated) Being or pertaining to an anti-bottom quark (formerly called anti-beauty quark).

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