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ɪkadjective
1.
pertaining to a sense of the beautiful or to the science of aesthetics.
2.
having a sense of the beautiful; characterized by a love of beauty.
3.
pertaining to, involving, or concerned with pure emotion and sensation as opposed to pure intellectuality.
noun
4.
a philosophical theory or idea of what is aesthetically valid at a given time and place: the clean lines, bare surfaces, and sense of space that bespeak the machine-age aesthetic.
6.
Archaic. the study of the nature of sensation.
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Aesthetic
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Example Sentences
- The new browser is much more than an aesthetic overhaul.
- Also, human conscience has its aesthetic component: our taste for "poetic" justice, the idea of symmetry.
- Jones has become famous for creating a modern dance aesthetic that addresses major moral and social questions.
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Word Origin & History
aesthetic
1798, from Ger. ästhetisch or Fr. esthétique, both from Gk. aisthetikos "sensitive," from aisthanesthai "to perceive, to feel," from PIE *awis-dh-yo-, from base *au- "to perceive." Popularized in Eng. by translation of Immanuel Kant, and used originally in the classically correct sense "the
EXPANDscience which treats of the conditions of sensuous perception." Kant had tried to correct the term after Baumgarten had taken it in Ger. to mean "criticism of taste" (1750s), but Baumgarten's sense attained popularity in English c.1830s (despite scholarly resistance) and removed the word from any philosophical base. Walter Pater used it (1868) to describe the late 19c. movement that advocated "art for art's sake," which further blurred the sense. Related: Aesthetically.
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aesthetic aes·thet·ic or es·thet·ic (ěs-thět'ĭk)
adj.
Relating to the sensations.
Relating to esthetics.
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