Combinations of Less Exciting Perceptual Qualities in Language

An ongoing collection of popular, idiomatic expressions made up of sequences of qualities humans universally find less exciting than their perceptual opposites.

Thermoaesthetics

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“God gives nuts to some who have no teeth.”

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Thermoaesthetics

A concept of aesthetic complexity based on universal animal preferences for mixtures of simple, more and less exciting physical and psychological opposites.