All 4 Uses
aesthetic
in
Brideshead Revisited
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- Collins had exposed the fallacy of modern aesthetics to me: "...the whole argument from Significant Form stands or falls by volume.†
p. 29.3aesthetics = related to beauty or good taste; or the study of what is beautiful or tastefulunconventional spelling: Aesthetics is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetics.
- It was an aesthetic education to live within those walls, to wander from room to room, from the Soanesque library to the Chinese drawing-room, adazzle with gilt pagodas and nodding mandarins, painted paper and Chippendale fretwork, from the Pompeian parlor to the great tapestry-hung hall which stood unchanged, as it had been designed two hundred and fifty years before; to sit, hour after hour, in the shade looking out on the terrace.†
p. 88.9aesthetic = beautiful, tasteful, or related to beauty or tasteunconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetic.
- You are an artist, Ryder, what do you think of it aesthetically?†
p. 102.5 *aesthetically = in a manner that is beautiful or tastefulunconventional spelling: Aesthetically is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetically.
- "They never go near the Louvre," I said, "or, if they do, it's only because one of their absurd reviews has suddenly 'discovered' a master who fits in with that month's aesthetic theory.†
p. 175.4aesthetic = beautiful, tasteful, or related to beauty or tasteunconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetic.
Definitions:
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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
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beautiful or tasteful -
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In Philosophy, "aesthetics" is the study of theories of what is beautiful.