Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being aesthetic.
It is well known that aestheticians insist upon the purity of musical art. This purity is nothing else than the greatest aestheticality realized in that compromise.
1959, André Mercier, edited by Alan Bloch, Thought and Being: An Inquiry into the Nature of Knowledge (Studia Philosophica; Supplementum 9), Basel: Verlag für Recht und Gesellschaft, page 1412 more examples
Recently a concept of aestheticality has been introduced: just as some people are musical, so others have a highly developed sense of body image and thus are more motivated to have any abnormality in their appearance corrected.
1985, Dai Davies, “Cosmetic Surgery: The Aging Face”, in ABC of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, London: British Medical Journal, →ISBN, page 40But if the reproach is not a trivial one – something that would be the case if one argued for the aestheticality of Adorno’s thought simply by denying validity to everything else he ever touched on – then it draws its force from a separation between abstract thinking and ‘mere’ aesthetic representation which must be argued as such (and is, for example, superseded in poststructuralism).
1990, Fredric Jameson, “Conclusions: Adorno in the Postmodern”, in Late Marxism: Adorno, or, The Persistence of the Dialectic, London; New York, N.Y.: Verso, →ISBN, pages 237–238Synonyms: aestheticalness, aestheticity, aestheticness · Antonyms: unaestheticness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe quality of being aesthetic.
Origin
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