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Esthetics   /ɛsθˈɛtɪks/   Listen
Esthetics

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






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"Esthetics" Quotes from Famous Books



... interpenetration of different spheres of thought and observation, with an unexpected deference to the appraisals of classic antiquity. Their range is unlimited: philosophy and psychology, mathematics and esthetics, philosophy and natural science, sociology and society, literature and the theatre are all largely ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IV • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

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— The Century Vocabulary Builder • Creever & Bachelor



Words linked to "Esthetics" :   philosophy, esthetician, aesthetics, esthetical, artistic production, artistic creation, art



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