About The Word Aesthetics
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Aesthetics
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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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