aesthetic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewis-dʰh₁
Proto-Hellenic *awistʰomai
Ancient Greek αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Ancient Greek αἴσθησῐς (aísthēsĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek αἰσθητικός (aisthētikós)bor.
Latin aesthēticusder.
German Ästhetikder.
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New Latin aesthēticusbor.
French esthétiqueder.
English aesthetic
From German Ästhetik or French esthétique, both from New Latin aesthēticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek αἰσθητικός (aisthētikós, “of sense perception”), from αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai, “to feel”); analysable as aesthe(sis) + -tic.
Cognates include Proto-Germanic *awiz (“obvious”), Sanskrit आविस् (āvís, “manifestly, evidently”) and Latin audiō.
Base: aesthesis
Affixes: -tic
Inflected forms:
form: more aesthetic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most aesthetic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: æsthetic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
form: esthetic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
US
form: aesthetics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: æsthetic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: esthetic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: Concerned with beauty, artistic effect, or appearance.
pos: adj
examples: It works well enough, but the shabby exterior offends his aesthetic sensibilities.
If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare,
You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.
If Euston is not typically English, St. Pancras is. Its façade is a nightmare of improbable Gothic. It is fairly plastered with the aesthetic ideals of 1868, and the only beautiful thing about it is Barlow's roof. It is haunted by the stuffier kind of ghost. Yet there is something about the ordered whole of St. Pancras that would make demolition a terrible pity.
But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings.
gloss: Beautiful or appealing to one's sense of beauty or art.
pos: adj
tags: proscribed
rare
examples: The design of the lobby cannot be considered particularly aesthetic.
The station was rebuilt yet again by British Rail in 1967, when large chunks of the 19th century station were demolished and replaced with 'modern' buildings that were less than aesthetic.
gloss: The study of art or beauty.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
gloss: That which appeals to the senses.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
often
gloss: The set of artistic motifs defining a collection of things, especially works of art; more broadly, their aura or “vibe”.
pos: noun
examples: Her most recent works have this quirky, nonchalant aesthetic inspired by ’90s teen culture.
I really like the goth aesthetic you've got going there.
A thin, crunchy lemon and thyme rosti was essentially the pimped-up aesthetic of the Kettle chip. That's OK. I like Kettle chips.
Related words: aesthesis
esthesis
Derived words: aesthetic attraction
aestheticisation
aestheticise
aestheticism
aestheticist
aestheticity
aestheticize
aestheticness
antiaesthetic
dysaesthetic
ethnoaesthetic
neuroaesthetic
nonaesthetic
phonoaesthetic
psycho-aesthetic
aesthete
aesthetically
aesthetician
aesthetic information
aesthetics
aesthetic surgeon
aesthetic surgery
aesthetisation
non-aesthetic
Y2K aesthetic
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