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Study of beauty and art (Var.)
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esthetics
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Word definitions for esthetics in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Esthete \Es"thete\, n.; Esthetic \Es*thet"ic\, a., Esthetical \Es*thet"ic*al\, a., Esthetics \Es*thet"ics\, n. etc. Same as [AE]sthete , [AE]sthetic , [AE]sthetical , [AE]sthetics , etc.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context US English) (alternative spelling of aesthetics English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art); "traditional aesthetics assumed the existence of universal and timeless criteria of artistic value" [syn: aesthetics ]
Usage examples of esthetics.
Economics, esthetics, law and the other forms of thought cannot supply its meaning, for war is politics at its highest intensity.
It did not matter much that esthetics became independent, for the only art form in the West which still had a future, Western Music, paid no attention to theories and continued on its grand creative course to its end in Wagner and his epigones.
It was a functional, solid sort of place, not really in keeping with the elevated esthetics of the Custodians.
In distinction to the ring, it is a crude, simple piece, designed without any esthetics at all.
So he works for speed rather than esthetics, and a few minutes later sorts through the pile of organs and throws the edible parts along with the gutted corpse into the big cooler in the back of his van, and heads for home, two states east.