es·thet·ics ( s-tht  ks)n. Variant of aesthetics. |
aesthetics, esthetics
a branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and the beautiful. — aesthete, aesthetic, n., adj. — aesthetical, adj.
See also: Philosophya branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and the beautiful. — aesthetic, n., adj. — aesthetical, adj.
See also: Beauty
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| Noun | 1. |  esthetics - (art) 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"artistic creation, artistic production, art - the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully" philosophy - the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics |
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