| 单词 | aesthetic |
| 释义 | aesthetic /es thet"ik/ or, esp. Brit., /ees-/, adj. 1. pertaining to a sense of the beautiful or to the science of aesthetics. 2. having a sense of the beautiful; characterized by a love of beauty. 3. pertaining to, involving, or concerned with pure emotion and sensation as opposed to pure intellectuality. n. 4. a philosophical theory or idea of what is aesthetically valid at a given time and place: the clean lines, bare surfaces, and sense of space that bespeak the machine-age aesthetic. 5. aesthetics. 6. Archaic. the study of the nature of sensation. Also, esthetic. [1815-25; < NL aestheticus < Gk aisthetikós, equiv. to aisthet(és) (see AESTHETE) + -ikos -IC] Syn. 2. discriminating, cultivated, refined. |
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