What is your definition of cute?

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Rode|ette ۩

I am CUTE

kahlan nynaeve®

C - U - T - E is:

C harmingly, U niquely T alented & E ndearing.

girlie

cute - "masarap kurutin" (gotta pinch - hard to resist!!!)

Purple Tactics

CUTE is a guy's definition of a girl, whom he likes and will rather other people know that he does like her.
For a guy, a CUTE girl is someone whom he first liked because of the girl's facial features. Notice how a guy would rather stay away from describing a girl as cute and sexy in the same sentence.
CUTE is also easy to please... the kind who would be content with a movie with popcorn and dinner at Shakeys.

nena aka NENA

cute is nena! nena is cute! PT is cute too!!!!!!!

Soop3rNLuVkJB

C- aring, compassionate
U-nderstanding
T-ackful
E-xciting to be with...

Cher

An extra wonderful creature with super extreme fantastic attraction and overwhelmingly universal appeal..

or in short Lyrrehc..

◘Wench◘

*Abigail Breslin a.k.a Olive Hoover/Little Miss Sunshine dancing to the tune of the Rick James' song "Super Freak"

*Shiloh, Suri, et. al

*Care Bears/Rainbow Brite/My Little Pony/Strawberry Shortcake

*Anything that makes you go "Awwwww............."
{you get my drift ^_^ }

Dinah

So MANY things are cute! How can you define it in so many applications? Puppies, kittens, babies, toddlers, children, adolescents, men, women....? Then you have the whole realm of stuffed animals, jokes, certain cartoonists and artists.... Cuteness can be found in all these.

In an animal, "cute" is the most vivacious, the silliest, the goofiest, I guess. In any age person, I guess it's the ones who are fun.

I had a discussion once with other women on celebrities, and the different looks on a gradient. In order, there was cute, pretty, attractive and beautiful. For the most part, we agreed "cute" were the ones with effervescence, "pretty" were the ones who didn't need makeup to be so, "attractive" were the ones whose grooming and bearing showed class, and "beautiful" required long necks and fabulous bone 'struckchah'.

Juan C

mostly chubby...

annabelle p

Cute, for me, is someone who is petite and likable.

hamster-de-combat

cute is your baby thumbnail...

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Evils

cute is funny and so sweet

ELLE

My cat!

theresagarfield

cute is a word to describe something fuzzy, and likeable, and huggable, and kissable.

or you could use it to describe...ummm...ME!

just kidding. =) really, just kidding.

黒いサファイア/Black Sapphire

Cute is something like small and petite but with charm...

krm29619

Endearingly attractive in the way that some children and young animals are..

eezy_jex ®

cuddly and/or lovable.

hmm, kawaii girls were cute. madmadfun kawaii girls. also called levi's girls.

ann

The real meaning of cute is.........ugly but tolerable.

kokey14

Cuteness (in the American English form of the word, the British English form of cute meaning clever, shrewd, or sly - stemming from the word 'acute') is a kind of attractive beauty commonly associated with youth, innocence and helplessness, as well as a scientific concept and analytical model in Ethology, first introduced by Konrad Lorenz. This is usually characterized by (though not limited to) some combination of infant-like physical traits, especially small body size with a disproportionately big head, large eyes, a small nose, dimples, and round and softer body features. Infantile personality traits, such as playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity, innocence, affectionate behavior and a need to be nurtured are also generally considered cute.

Psychology of cuteness
Konrad Lorenz argued in 1949 that infantile features triggered nurturing responses in adults. Lorenz argued that this was an evolutionary adaptation, which helped ensure that adults cared for their children, ultimately securing the survival of the species. As evidence for this theory, Lorenz noted that humans react more positively to animals that resemble infants—with big eyes, big heads, shortened noses, etc.—than to animals that do not.

Another way to phrase Lorenz's point is to say that humans prefer animals which exhibit pedomorphosis. Pedomorphosis is the retention of child-like characteristics—such as big heads or large eyes—into adulthood. Thus, pedomorphosis and cuteness may explain the popularity of Giant Pandas and Koalas. The widely perceived cuteness of domesticated animals, such as dogs and cats, may be due to the fact that humans selectively breed their pets for infant-like characteristics, including non-aggressive behavior and child-like appearance.

Some later scientific studies have provided further evidence for Lorenz's theory. For example, it has been shown that human adults react positively to infants who are stereotypically cute. Studies have also shown that responses to cuteness—and to facial attractiveness generally—seem to be similar across and within cultures.[1]

Additionally, the phenomenon is not restricted to humans. The young of many mammal and bird species share are a similar set of typical physical proportions, beyond absolute body size, that distinguish them from adults of their own species. "Cute" features were also described in the recent finding of a baby Triceratops skull, suggesting that cuteness is an ancient and useful survival technique.[1]

Cuteness may be viewed as a factor in sexual attractiveness of an adult human, especially in the case of a young woman who retains some child-like features, but also more recently with some young men as well.

Cultural significance
Cuteness is a major marketing tool in many cultures, such as that of Japan. Of course, cuteness is also an important selling point in the West. Elmo, The Family Circus, Furby, Precious Moments, Mashimaro, and many other cultural icons and products trade on their cuteness—not to mention the overwhelming international success of Japanese exports like Pokémon or Hello Kitty. It can be a factor in live action productions such as the successful documentary film, March of the Penguins, where the intense cuteness of the penguins was cited as a major reason for the film's outstanding appeal.[citation needed] This technique was repeated in the computer-animated film Happy Feet as well as Shirley Temple movies, the Honey, I Shrunk The Kids trilogy, the Three Men and a Baby duology, and elements of One Good Cop.

Stephen Jay Gould remarked on this phenomenon in an article for the journal Natural History, in which he pointed out that over time Mickey Mouse had been drawn more and more to resemble an infant—with bigger head, bigger eyes, and so forth. Gould suggested that this change in Mickey's image was intended to increase his popularity by making him appear cuter. Cuteness has often been associated with names and people have been represented to through those names by denoting them with a nickname, as an example, cute figures such as winnie the pooh, an adorable cartoon, can often be taken in as a nickname such as winnie. This nickname represents innocence and cuteness and is often interpreded by others in a very postive manner.

Dami no, pero mas simple, ang ibig sabihin ng cute ay "IKAW".

kore

I'm sorry but cute (or kawaii in Japanese) is only used to refer to pretty four-legged pets... that's the truth. try philosophy. :)

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