![]() borrowed from German Ästhetik, borrowed from New Latin aesthetica, from feminine of aestheticus aesthetic entry 1 - more at -ics. Learn More About aesthetic. Post the Definition of aesthetic to Facebook Share the Definition of aesthetic on Twitter Time Traveler for aesthetic. |
![]() The challenge to the assumption that beauty was central to art and aesthetics, thought to be original, is actually continuous with older aesthetic theory; Aristotle was the first in the Western tradition to classify beauty" into types as in his theory of drama, and Kant made a distinction between beauty and the sublime. |