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Aesthetics

Aesthetics Meaning & Definition
Aesthetics Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Aesthetics?

[n] 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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Aesthetics: esthetics

Related Terms | Find terms related to Aesthetics: artistic taste | axiology | casuistry | connoisseurship | cosmology | dilettantism | epicureanism | epicurism | epistemology | ethics | expertise | expertism | first philosophy | friandise | gastronomy | gnosiology | logic | mental philosophy | metaphysics | moral philosophy | ontology | phenomenology | philosophastry | philosophic doctrine | philosophic system | philosophic theory | philosophical inquiry | philosophical speculation | philosophy | school of philosophy | school of thought | science of being | sophistry | theory of beauty | theory of knowledge | value theory | virtu | virtuosity

See Also | philosophy

Aesthetics In Webster's Dictionary

\[AE]s*thet"ics\, Esthetics \Es*thet"ics\ (?; 277), n. [Gr. ? perceptive, esp. by feeling, fr. ? to perceive, feel: cf. G. ["a]sthetik, F. esth['e]tique.] 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.

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