Unattractiveness or ugliness is the degree to which a person's physical features are considered aesthetically unfavorable.

Ugliness is a property of a person or thing that is unpleasant to look upon and results in a highly unfavorable evaluation. The point of ugliness is to be aesthetically unattractive, unpleasing, repulsive, or offensive. There are many terms associat…

Jean-Paul Sartre had strabismus and a bloated, asymmetrical face, and he attributed many of his philosophical ideas to his lifelong struggle to come to terms with his self-described ugliness. Socrates also used his ugliness as a philosophical touc…

Discrimination or prejudice against unattractive people is sometimes referred to as lookism, cacophobia, or aschemophobia, and if it is a result of one's disfigurement, ableism. Teratophobia is an aversion or fear of people who appear m…

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