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aesthetical

[ es-thet-i-kuhlor, especially British, ees- ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to aesthetics. aesthetics.


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Other Words From

  • nonaes·theti·cal adjective
  • nonaes·theti·cal·ly adverb
  • super·aes·theti·cal adjective
  • super·aes·theti·cal·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of aesthetical1

First recorded in 1790–1800; aesthetic, -al 1

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Example Sentences

As the gallery puts it, Mercier's works "imply that function is part of an aesthetical proposition."

Munich, on the Isar, is every day drifting into the beautiful, not to say aesthetical.

This later view was to a great extent expressed by Schiller in his "Aesthetical Letters."

The following year, 1795, appeared his most important contribution to aesthetics, in his Aesthetical Letters.

The aesthetical appearance can never endanger the truth of morals: wherever it seems to do so the appearance is not aesthetical.

The act of Leonidas satisfies the moral sense, the reason; it enraptures the aesthetical sense, the imagination.

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