æsthetics

noun

Dated spelling of aesthetics.

Meanings

nounæsthetics (usually uncountable, plural æsthetics)
  1. uncountableusuallyDated spelling of aesthetics.

    æsthetics matter / there should be / a beauty to the flow / of thought on 𝕏

    2024 July 21, Elon Musk (@elonmusk), X, archived from the original on 29 Dec 2024
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    Physiological æsthetics purported to measure and analyze the impact of form, movement and color not only on the eye but on the body.

    1997, Barbara T. Cooper, Mary Donaldson-Evans, editors, Moving Forward, Holding Fast: The Dynamics of Nineteenth-Century French Culture, Rodopi, →ISBN, page 219

    Psychoanalysis, one of the most sophisticated and comprehensive models ever offered in the fields of cognition (epistemology), affect (emotion system), action and motivation (pragmatics) and æsthetics, may very well be the last creation of “modernism.”

    2001, Mary Lawrence Test, Dalhousie French Studies, volume 54, “Dominique Desanti: Un Hommage”, page 111 (Department of French, Dalhousie University)

    Æsthetics matter: a particularly attractive, innovative, or clever design of the interface is always appreciated.

    2010 winter, “[Lecture #1 - Welcome to CS193P] Assignment 1A - Hello Stanford!”, in CS 193P iPhone Application Development, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2014, page 2
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APA

æsthetics. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/%C3%A6sthetics

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