Esthetic

Word ESTHETIC
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Definitions and meanings of "Esthetic"

What do we mean by esthetic?

In pathology, having sensation: as, “a patch of æsthetic skin.”

Pertaining to the science of taste or beauty; pertaining to or originating in the sense of the beautiful: as, the esthetic faculty.

Having a sense of the beautiful; characterized by a love for the beautiful.

Pertaining to the practice of the fine arts; pertaining to or accordant with the rules, principles, or tendencies of the fine arts: as, an esthetic pose; esthetic dress.

In the Kantian philosophy, pertaining to sensation or the sensibility: sensuous.

The science of beauty. See esthetics. noun

In the Kantian philosophy, the forms of sensation (space and time), or of sensibility. noun

Alternative spelling of aesthetic. adjective

(philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful noun

Concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste adjective

Relating to or dealing with the subject of aesthetics adjective

Aesthetically pleasing adjective

Concerned with beauty, artistic impact, or appearance.

Beautiful or appealing to one's sense of beauty and/or art.

When someone is so hideous you can not just call them ugly. Someone you would not set up with a friend. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Esthetic

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The word "esthetic" in example sentences

"Imagination" shares with "beauty" the doubtful honor of being the chief theme in esthetic writings of enthusiastic ignorance. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What is overlooked is that it is not the painting as a picture (that is, the object in esthetic experience) that causes certain effects "in us." ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is an "object in esthetic experience," not just the provocation to such experience. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I can't imagine where she gets them; partly I think from a general conviction that the 'esthetic' -- a horrible insidious foreign disease -- is eating the healthy core out of English life (dear old English life!) and partly from the charming pictures in _Punch_ and the clever satirical articles, pointing at mysterious depths of contamination, in the other weekly papers. ❋ Henry James (1879)

The design esthetic is part of the way in which people instinctively 'judge' an overall book. if, as I suspect from what I've been asked by people who definitely buy a lot of SF/F, people are now equating a certain cover stock with 'unprofessional', then it should be a factor in the choice the publisher makes. ( ❋ Msagara (2009)

MacAlister, answered Stephen, would call my esthetic theory applied Aquinas. ❋ Unknown (2003)

-- MacAlister, answered Stephen, would call my esthetic theory applied Aquinas. ❋ Joyce, James, 1882-1941 (1922)

This is ordinarily called the esthetic sense, but that is an inexact term, for esthetic sense signifies a sense of the beautiful and what is esthetic is not necessarily beautiful. ❋ Saint-Saens, Camille (1919)

-- MacAlister, answered Stephen, would call my esthetic theory applied ❋ James Joyce (1911)

The third -- that is, the esthetic -- repulsion toward publicity in respect to the natural history of sex, I will not pretend to judge. ❋ Albert Moll (1900)

The so-called esthetic element in sexual selection is only indirectly of importance. ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)

You should date my friend [Mary], she is [very nice] and smart, but she is just [esthetically challenged]. ❋ MsSouthJersey (2010)

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