ELEGANCE
Like many words in the English language, the word elegance has a few different meanings. One meaning that’s likely to get usage is “beauty”: “she wore an elegant dress,” for example—an entirely positive association.
“Beauty” usually means something like “aesthetically pleasing.” But the subjectivity of whether “beauty” should refer to any given thing means that this word is also ineffectual; a person can’t be wrong about beauty, at least when it comes to what they personally consider “beautiful.” While it feels warm and romantic, the word doesn’t actually do much of what words usually do, which is to describe something. In the context of a technical textbook, words can be judged by their explanatory power, and, by this metric, ...
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