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esthetics

esthetics

1 8.2
Study of beauty, art, and how people decide what is beautiful
  • noun
  • /ɛsˈθɛtɪks/
  • Specialized
translation icon : estética
  • " The Aveda Fredric's Institute was founded to create some of the most successful entrepreneurs in hair, skin and nail esthetics, makeup, and total body wellness."
  • Augustine's esthetics

The last one is aesthetics, which is beauty.

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Examples

  • Maybe if you take a class in aesthetics, you might read some of his essays.

  • There's a theme running through the whole show that you can't and shouldn't divorce aesthetics from meaning.

  • And the fact of the matter is, aesthetics do matter to us.

  • First, we're trying to improve the aesthetics of our homes.

  • So ultimately, we never want to sacrifice aesthetics more than necessary.

  • Drag goes beyond words to explore new possibilities for the aesthetics of gender.

  • The global demand for ideal dental esthetics is based on the assumption that beauty is associated with favorable personality traits.

    Academic text (2016)
  • This clearly is a reflection on the power of aesthetics and on the limits of aesthetics.

  • His 1938 textbook, Psychology of Music, outlined this new branch of psychology in twenty-eight chapters, ranging from "The Musical Mind" to "Musical Esthetics."

    Academic text (1993)
  • The study of esthetics helps us understand what makes art beautiful.

Synonyms

esthetic
vsesthetics
  • Formal
6.8

A style or set of ideas about what is beautiful in art

is the broader philosophical field studying beauty, art, and appreciation of taste

Surface Forms

esthetics singular
esthetics plural

Morphology

esthetics = esthetic (semi-transparent) = esthetic + aesthetic + ics

Formed from 'esthetic' + the noun-forming suffix '-ics' meaning a field of study; the relation to the adjective is clear but the suffixal formation for disciplines is not fully transparent to all learners.

Etymology

Esthetics comes from the Greek word aesthesis, meaning 'perception' or 'feeling', like how you 'sense' something. So esthetics is the study of how we 'feel' about beauty and art.