1 concerned with beauty and art and the understanding of beautiful things:
an aesthetic appreciation of the landscape * The benefits of conservation are both financial and aesthetic.
2 made in an artistic way and beautiful to look at:
Their furniture was more aesthetic than functional.
aesthetically (AmE also esthetically) adverb:
aesthetically pleasing colour combinations
Part of speech: noun
1 [C] the aesthetic qualities and ideas of sth:
The students debated the aesthetic of the poems.
2 (aesthetics) [U] the branch of philosophy that studies the principles of beauty, especially in art
aestheticism (AmE also estheticism) noun [U]
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