Beauty is a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object, or idea

 that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, meaning, or
 
satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology, social

psychology, and culture. As a cultural creation, beauty has been

extremely commercialized. An "ideal beauty" is an entity which is
 
admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a

particular culture, for perfection.

The experience of "beauty" often involves the interpretation of some
 
entity as being in balance and harmony with nature, which may lead

to feelings of attraction and emotional well-being. Because this is a

subjective experience, it is often said that "beauty is in the eye of

the beholder. In its most profound sense, beauty may engender a

salient experience of positive reflection about the meaning of one's

own existence. A subject of beauty is anything that resonates with
 
personal meaning.

 The classical Greek adjective for "beautiful" was καλλός, kallos.
 
The Koine Greek word for beautiful was ὡραῖος, hōraios,an

adjective etymologically coming from the word ὥρα, hōra, meaning
 
"hour." In Koine Greek, beauty was thus associated with "being of

one's hour." A ripe fruit (of its time) was considered beautiful,

whereas a young woman trying to appear older or an older woman

trying to appear younger would not be considered beautiful. In

Attic Greek, hōraios had many meanings, including "youthful"
 
and "ripe old age."