'aesthetics' definitions:
Definition of 'aesthetics'
(from WordNet)
noun
(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" [syn: aesthetics, esthetics]
Synonyms of 'aesthetics'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- artistic taste,
- axiology,
- casuistry,
- connoisseurship,
- cosmology,
- dilettantism,
- epicureanism,
- epicurism,
- epistemology,
- ethics,
- expertise,
- expertism,
- first philosophy,
- friandise,
- gastronomy,
- gnosiology,
- logic,
- mental philosophy,
- metaphysics,
- moral philosophy,
- ontology,
- phenomenology,
- philosophastry,
- philosophic doctrine,
- philosophic system,
- philosophic theory,
- philosophical inquiry,
- philosophical speculation,
- philosophy,
- school of philosophy,
- school of thought,
- science of being,
- sophistry,
- theory of beauty,
- theory of knowledge,
- value theory,
- virtu,
- virtuosity