Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun aesthetics

1 sense of aesthetics

Sense 1
aesthetics, esthetics -- ((art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art); "traditional aesthetics assumed the existence of universal and timeless criteria of artistic value")
       => philosophy -- (the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun aesthetic

1 sense of aesthetic

Sense 1
aesthetic, esthetic -- ((philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful; "he despised the esthetic of minimalism")
       => philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory -- (a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy)