Atomica: pul·chri·tude (pŭl'krĭ-tûd', -tyûd')
n.
Great physical beauty and appeal.

[Middle English pulcritude, from Latin pulchritûdô, from pulcher, pulchr-, beautiful.]


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No gender indicated. Not a word I've used in any case, so I have no habit of assocating it with one or the other.