| Term | Definition |
|---|
| aesthete | one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature |
| aesthetic | (philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful |
| beatific | experiencing or bestowing celestial joy |
| beatitude | one of the eight sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount |
| benign | pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence |
| benignant | pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence |
| benison | a spoken blessing |
| bona fide | not counterfeit or copied |
| bonanza | a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) |
| bon vivant | a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) |
| boon | a desirable state |
| debonair | having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air |
| eugenics | the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating) |
| euphemism | an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive |
| euphony | any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds |
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