The Collaborative International Dictionary
AEsthetic \[AE]s*thet"ic\, AEsthetical \[AE]s*thet"ic*al\, a. Of or Pertaining to [ae]sthetics; versed in [ae]sthetics; as, [ae]sthetic studies, emotions, ideas, persons, etc. [1913 Webster] -- [AE]s*thet"ic*al*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
adv. In an aesthetic manner; with a pleasing sensory effect. alt. In an aesthetic manner; with a pleasing sensory effect.
WordNet
adv. in a tasteful way; "this building is aesthetically very pleasing" [syn: esthetically]
Usage examples of "aesthetically".
We are aesthetically and emotionally drawn to primitivism, but not economically or politically.
Since the 1950s, the mallness of malls has involved a different set of characteristics: a shared parking lot, common ownership and management, uniform and aesthetically pleasing design, clear and consistent marketing goals, a carefully controlled commercial environment, a tenant mix designed to provide variety, and a wide range of consumer goods.
Other regional shopping centers also rationalized and romanticized shopping, making the experience easy, efficient, comfortable, and aesthetically pleasing.
He moves nimbly from a grave topic to a list of the methods the little Gargantua invented for wiping his ass, and yet, aesthetically, all these elements, frivolous or grave, have equal importance in his work, give me equal pleasure.
Chekhov, the only way that the eternal can be achieved is aesthetically through a unification with the human.
We attempt to appreciate it aesthetically, and so to assert a comforting aesthetic distance.
Further they are skilled with primitive weapons and have constructed an aesthetically spectacular village that clings to the cliffsides of a gorge, protected from the elements by shell-like canopies.
Jim wanted to strike back at Olive but he wanted the event to be aesthetically pleasing in some way.
That, the irrational gesture, was somehow more emotionally fulfilling, more aesthetically satisfying than the reasonable path Simone wished him to choose.
To achieve this psychological cyclisation and make it aesthetically convincing, the old ways of linking the stories had to be abandoned and a new method had to be found to make the whole composition of the cycle perfectly natural and motivated.
Kundera himself has insisted that his novels, like all novels, be received aesthetically rather than politically.
There was a small number of aesthetically civilized people, but these were hopelessly conservative.
Russian society was aesthetically one of the most cultivated and experienced in Europe.
Metria might not have appreciated, aesthetically, before she got half-souled.
But the characteristic writers of the time, people like Auden and Spender and MacNeice, have been didactic, political writers, aesthetically conscious, of course, but more interested in subject-matter than in technique.