English noun: esthetics | |||
1. | esthetics (cognition) (art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art) | ||
Samples | Traditional aesthetics assumed the existence of universal and timeless criteria of artistic value. | ||
Synonyms | aesthetics | ||
Broader (hypernym) | philosophy | ||
Domain category | art, artistic creation, artistic production | ||