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ESTHETICS

• ESTHETICS (noun)
The noun ESTHETICS has 1 sense:

1. (art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art)

Familiarity information: ESTHETICS used as a noun is very rare.

• ESTHETICS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

(art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

aesthetics; esthetics

Context example:

traditional aesthetics assumed the existence of universal and timeless criteria of artistic value

Hypernyms ("esthetics" is a kind of...):

philosophy (the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics)

Domain category:

art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)

"Different strokes for different folks."
(English proverb)
"Any new saint-to-be has his miracles to make"
(Breton proverb)
"Don't ask the singer to sing until he wishes to sing by himself."
(Arabic proverb)
"He who has nothing will not eat. If you want flour, go gather chestnuts."
(Corsican proverb)

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