aesthetic
[es-thet-ik or, esp. British, ees-] Spell Syllables
adjective
1. pertaining to a sense of the beautiful or to the philosophy of aesthetics.
2.of or pertaining to the study of the mind and emotions in relation to thesense of beauty; of or relating to the science of aesthetics.
3. having a sense of the beautiful; characterized by a love of beauty.
4. pertaining to, involving, or concerned with pure emotion and sensationas opposed to pure intellectuality.
noun
5. the philosophical theory or set of principles governing the idea ofbeauty at a given time and place:
the clean lines, bare surfaces, and sense of space that bespeak themachine-age aesthetic; the Cubist aesthetic.
6. Archaic. the study of the nature of sensation.