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English noun: aesthetics

1. aesthetics (cognition) (art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art)


SamplesTraditional aesthetics assumed the existence of universal and timeless criteria of artistic value.


Synonymsesthetics


Broader (hypernym)philosophy


Domain categoryart, artistic creation, artistic production









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