aesthetic
Concerned with beauty, artistic effect, or appearance.
Example
“It works well enough, but the shabby exterior offends his aesthetic sensibilities.”
Other meanings
Beautiful or appealing to one's sense of beauty or art.
“The design of the lobby cannot be considered particularly aesthetic.”
Related words
- aestheticity
- aestheticize
- aestheticness
- aestheticisation
- aestheticise
- aestheticism
- aestheticist
- antiaesthetic
- dysaesthetic
- ethnoaesthetic
- neuroaesthetic
- nonaesthetic
Word history
From Ancient Greek "αἰσθητικός" (of sense perception).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “aesthetic” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.