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aesthetic
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  • She expressed concern about the aesthetic impact of wind turbines in such beautiful countryside.
    aesthetic = related to beauty
  • Development threatened the aesthetic value of the coast line.
  • The planning commission has to balance the desire for wider roadways against a desire for an aesthetically pleasing downtown.
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  • Her aesthetic sense was such that she preferred natural finishes.
    aesthetic = guiding principles regarding beauty or good taste
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetic.
  • She cherishes the arts and aesthetic pleasure.
    aesthetic = related to beauty
  • esthetic judgments feel superficial when you share them with a stranger,  (source)
    esthetic = one's sense of what is beautiful
  • You can think of it as a matter of aesthetics.  (source)
    aesthetics = what is beautiful or desirable
    unconventional spelling: Aesthetics is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetics.
  • He listened to philosophic discussions, to metaphysics, to esthetics, to impersonal experience.  (source)
    esthetics = analysis of what is beautiful
  • Two chances because first the card is totally illegal and would someday cost me my license if caught-less than likely if I kept using Daddy Silva's obscenely expensive but aesthetically perfect shapechanger chips-and, second, I ran a better than even chance of ending up in the living room of Johnny's house...never an easy situation to talk one's way out of.†  (source)
    aesthetically = in a manner that is beautiful or tasteful
    unconventional spelling: Aesthetically is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetically.
  • "Joe's" was unaesthetic and faintly unsanitary, but a limitless charge account could be opened there, a convenience that Amory appreciated.†  (source)
    unaesthetic = not beautiful or tasteful
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unaesthetic means not and reverses the meaning of aesthetic. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Had I been older I might have thought that I was moved by both an esthetic sense of beauty and the pure emotion of envy.  (source)
    esthetic = sensitivity to beauty
  • In his aesthetics he investigated what happens when we are overwhelmed by beauty--in a work of art, for instance.  (source)
    aesthetics = study of beauty
  • had no interest in esthetics  (source)
    esthetics = what is considered beautiful
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