Both Uses of
aesthetic
in
Franny and Zooey
- The aesthetic evil of a footnote seems in order just here,
Chpt 2.1 *aesthetic = related to the guiding principles of what is attractive or desirableunconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetic.
- Whatever her taste in television-play titles, or her aesthetics in general, a flicker came into her eyes—no more than a flicker, but a flicker—of connoisseurlike, if perverse, relish for her youngest, and only handsome, son's style of bullying.†
Chpt 2.2
Definition:
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(aesthetic) related to beauty or good taste -- often referring to one's appreciation of beauty or one's sense of what is beautiful
or:
beautiful or tasteful