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æsthetics

æsthetics noun: dated spelling of aesthetics.

Noun

æsthetics (usually uncountable, plural æsthetics)

  1. (usually) Dated spelling of aesthetics.
    • Physiological æsthetics purported to measure and analyze the impact of form, movement and color not only on the eye but on the body.1997, Barbara T. Cooper, Mary Donaldson-Evans, editors, Moving Forward, Holding Fast: The Dynamics of Nineteenth-Century French Culture, Rodopi, →ISBN, page 219
    • Psychoanalysis, one of the most sophisticated and comprehensive models ever offered in the fields of cognition (epistemology), affect (emotion system), action and motivation (pragmatics) and æsthetics, may very well be the last creation of “modernism.”2001, Mary Lawrence Test, Dalhousie French Studies, volume 54, “Dominique Desanti: Un Hommage”, page 111 (Department of French, Dalhousie University)

Examples of æsthetics in a sentence

  • Æsthetics matter: a particularly attractive, innovative, or clever design of the interface is always appreciated.2010 winter, “[Lecture #1 - Welcome to CS193P] Assignment 1A - Hello Stanford!”, in CS 193P iPhone Application Development, Stanford...
  • æsthetics matter / there should be / a beauty to the flow / of thought on 𝕏2024 July 21, Elon Musk (@elonmusk), X, archived from the original on 29 Dec 2024:

Forms of æsthetics

pluralæsthetics

Questions about æsthetics

What does æsthetics mean?
Æsthetics means dated spelling of aesthetics.
How do you use æsthetics in a sentence?
Æsthetics matter: a particularly attractive, innovative, or clever design of the interface is always appreciated.
What part of speech is æsthetics?
Æsthetics is a noun.
What is the plural of æsthetics?
The plural of æsthetics is æsthetics.

Words near æsthetics in the dictionary

  1. æstheticization
  2. æstheticize
  3. æstheticized
  4. æstheticizes
  5. æstheticizing
  6. æsthetics
  7. æsthetology
  8. æstho-physiology
  9. æstiferous
  10. æstimate
  11. æstimates

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