Esthetic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Variant of aesthetic.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Alternative spelling of aesthetic.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • n. The science of beauty. See esthetics.
  • n. In the Kantian philosophy, the forms of sensation (space and time), or of sensibility.
  • In pathology, having sensation: as, “a patch of æsthetic skin.”
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful
  • adj. concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste
  • adj. relating to or dealing with the subject of aesthetics
  • adj. aesthetically pleasing
  • Equivalent
    enhancive    painterly    artistic    sensuous    cosmetic   
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    elegant   
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    Words with the same meaning
    tasteful    tasty    esthetic    aesthetical   
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    Athletic    Peripatetic    acetic    alphabetic    anesthetic   
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    artistic    ethical    poetic    subjective    educational