Pythagoras called the universe 'kosmos' (order) — and 'cosmetics' shares the root: the art of order.
The universe seen as a well-ordered whole; the opposite of chaos.
From Greek 'kósmos' (κόσμος), meaning 'order,' 'good order,' 'ornament,' or 'beauty.' The philosopher Pythagoras is traditionally credited with first applying 'kósmos' to the universe, because he perceived the natural world as an orderly, harmonious system — a place of beauty and arrangement rather than randomness. The same word also meant 'adornment,' which is why 'cosmetics' (the art of adorning) shares its root with 'cosmos' (the adorned, ordered universe). Key roots: kósmos (Greek: "order, ornament, beauty, the world").
The words 'cosmos' and 'cosmetics' come from the same Greek word 'kósmos' (order, adornment). The universe is called the cosmos because the Greeks saw it as beautifully ordered, and cosmetics are named for the act of creating order and beauty on the face — making the face a small, ordered universe.
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