Hypertext Webster Gateway: "aesthetics"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
AEsthetics \[AE]s*thet"ics\, Esthetics \Es*thet"ics\ (?; 277),
n. [Gr. ? perceptive, esp. by feeling, fr. ? to perceive,
feel: cf. G. ["a]sthetik, F. esth['e]tique.]
The theory or philosophy of taste; the science of the
beautiful in nature and art; esp. that which treats of the
expression and embodiment of beauty by art.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
aesthetics
n : the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste
(emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to
art); "traditional aesthetics assumed the existence of
universal and timeless criteria of artistic value" [syn:
{esthetics}]
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