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esthetics
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun esthetics has 1 sense
- esthetics(n = noun.cognition) aesthetics - (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" is a kind of philosophy
Derived forms adjective esthetical1, noun esthetician2
CIDE DICTIONARY
esthetics, n. [Gr. perceptive, esp. by feeling, fr. to perceive, feel: cf. G. ästhetik, F. esthétique.].
The theory or philosophy of taste; the science of the beautiful in nature and art; esp. that which treats of the expression and embodiment of beauty by art. [1913 Webster]
esthetics, n.
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