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aesthetic information

aesthetic information noun: sensory information that cannot be articulated in language.

Noun

aesthetic information (uncountable)

  1. Sensory information that cannot be articulated in language.
    • Coordinate term: semantic information
    • If esthetic information is a key element in the structure of political cognitions, it is clearly of crucial importance to learn as much as possible about the dynamics of their generation. Which forms of political cues convey or reinforce which meanings in mass publics?1971, Murray Edelman, Politics as Symbolic Action: Mass Arousal and Quiescence, page 36

Examples of aesthetic information in a sentence

  • Aesthetic information has no immediate, direct use.2020 [2015], Jörg Kurt Grütter, Basics of Perception in Architecture, →ISBN, page 5:
  • Skimming and scanning were two of the main hyper-reading techniques encouraged by the abundance of aesthetic information in the turn-of-the-century ILN and Graphic numbers.2021, Alison Hedley, Making Pictorial Print: Media Literacy and Mass Culture in British Magazines, 1885–1918, →ISBN, page 82:

Forms of aesthetic information

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Origin of aesthetic information

Calque of French information esthétique, as used by French social psychologist and philosopher Abraham Moles in his Théorie de l’information et perception esthétique (1958).

Questions about aesthetic information

What does aesthetic information mean?
Aesthetic information means sensory information that cannot be articulated in language.
How do you use aesthetic information in a sentence?
Aesthetic information has no immediate, direct use.
What part of speech is aesthetic information?
Aesthetic information is a noun.

Words near aesthetic information in the dictionary

  1. aesthetascs
  2. aesthete
  3. aesthetes
  4. aesthetic
  5. aesthetic attraction
  6. aesthetic information
  7. aesthetic surgeon
  8. aesthetic surgeons
  9. aesthetic surgeries
  10. aesthetic surgery
  11. aesthetical

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