esthetic

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  esthetic    aesthetic  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
esthetic etc.

▶adjective US spelling of aesthetic etc.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
aesthetic /iːsˈθɛtɪk, ɛs-/ (US also esthetic)

▶adjective concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty.

■ of pleasing appearance.

■ (Aesthetic) relating to or denoting a literary and artistic movement in England during the 1880s, devoted to ‘art for art's sake’ and rejecting the notion that art should have a social or moral purpose.

▶noun a set of principles underlying the work of a particular artist or artistic movement.

– derivatives
aesthetically adverb,
aestheticism noun,
aestheticize (or aestheticise) verb.

– origin C18: from Gk aisthētikos, from aisthēta ‘perceptible things’, from aisthesthai ‘perceive’.