Both Uses of
aesthetic
in
Alias Grace
- Still, there's a severe and unadorned elegance about her — like a Quaker meeting house which has its appeal; an appeal which, for him, is aesthetic only.†
Chpt 4aesthetic = beautiful, tasteful, or related to beauty or tasteunconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetic.
- But Lydia is a confection, and he doesn't wish to deprive himself of such an aesthetic pleasure too soon.
Chpt 7 *aesthetic = appreciation of beautyunconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetic.
Definition:
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
or:
beautiful or tasteful