ESTHETICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does esthetics mean? 

• ESTHETICS (noun)
  The noun ESTHETICS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ESTHETICS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ESTHETICS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

aesthetics; esthetics

Context example:

traditional aesthetics assumed the existence of universal and timeless criteria of artistic value

Hypernyms ("esthetics" is a kind of...):

philosophy (the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics)

Domain category:

art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)

Derivation:

esthetical (concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste)

esthetician (a philosopher who specializes in the nature of beauty)