All 3 Uses of
aesthetic
in
Atlas Shrugged
- He looked like the hulk of an evangelist or a professor of esthetics who had spent years in contemplation in obscure museums.†
Chpt 1.7esthetics = related to beauty or good taste; or the study of what is beautiful or tasteful
- ...he felt was the sheer pleasure of the sight, the purest esthetic pleasure he had ever experienced.
Chpt 2.6 *esthetic = sensation of beauty
- He had a yellow complexion, curly hair, a hard face made of soft muscles, and the revolting handsomeness belonging to the esthetic standards of barroom corners; his blurred brown eyes had the empty flatness of glass.†
Chpt 3.3esthetic = beautiful, tasteful, or related to beauty or taste
Definitions:
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(1)
(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 -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In Philosophy, "aesthetics" is the study of theories of what is beautiful.