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Beauty is an aesthetic characteristic.

Beauty may also refer to:

Science and mathematics

• Beauty (quantum number) or bottomness, a flavour quantum number
• Mathematical beauty, a mathematical philosophy

Characters

• Beauty (Belle), a central character in the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast and adaptations
• Beauty, the main character in The Sleeping Beauty Quartet, a series of novels by Anne Rice (writing as A. N. Roquelaure)
• Beauty, anime/manga series character from Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, see list of characters

Film and television

• Two 1965 films by Andy Warhol:
  • Beauty No. 1
  • Beauty No. 2
• Beauty: In the Eyes of the Beheld, a 2008 American documentary by Liza Figueroa Kravinsky
• Beauty (2009 film), a Japanese film by Toshio Gotō
• Beauty (2011 film), a South African film by Oliver Hermanus
• Beauty (2022 film), an American film by Andrew Dosunmu
• "Beauty" (Once Upon a Time), a 2017 television episode

Literature

• Beauty (Selbourne novel), a 2009 novel by Raphael Selbourne
• Beauty (Tepper novel), a 1991 novel by Sheri S. Tepper
• Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast, a 1978 young-adult novel by Robin McKinley
• Beauty, a 1992 novel by Brian D'Amato
• Beauty, a 2012 Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter book by Laurell K. Hamilton
• "Beauty", a 2003 short story by Sherwood Smith

Music

• The Beauties, a Canadian roots/country band

People

• Beauty Dlulane, South African Member of Parliament
• Beauty Gonzalez (born 1991), Filipino-Spanish actress
• Beauty McGowan (1901–1982), American baseball player
• Beauty Ngxongo (born 1953), South African master Zulu basket weaver
• Beauty Turner (1957–2008), American housing activist and journalist

Places in the United States

• Beauty, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
• Beauty, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Beauty Lake, a lake in Montana

Other uses

• Beauty (ancient thought)
• Beauty (dog), a World War II search and rescue dog
• The Beauty, a 1915 Boris Kustodiev painting
• Beauty industry, or sometimes just "Beauty," is a catch-all term for the services and products that deal with feminine appearance (Cosmetics, Hairstyling, etc.)

See also

• Aesthetics, a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste
• Beauty and the Beast (disambiguation)
• Black Beauty (disambiguation)
• Sleeping Beauty (disambiguation)
• Beautiful (disambiguation)
• Pretty (disambiguation)
• Unattractiveness, the antonym of beauty
• All pages with titles beginning with Beauty
• All pages with titles containing Beauty