Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being aesthetic.
This picture resembles her, of course, but one must see her with her “specks” on to fully appreciate her “aestheticness.”
1915, “Seniors 1915”, in The Serpentine, West Chester, Pa.: The Senior Class of West Chester State Normal School, page 1172 more examples
There have been great improvements made in the interior of the dining hall over the four years that I have attended Longwood, however the "graffiti" on the drinking area walls distract from the overall aestheticness of the dining area.
1988 March 22, “To the Editor”, in Cathy Gaughran, editor, The Rotunda, 67th year, number 20, Farmville, Va.: Longwood College, page 2, column 4Mention must also be made here of Goodman (1968), a rather different approach to theorizing the aesthetic, which offers five symptoms, not of aesthetic propertyhood, but of aesthetic functioning on the part of a symbol system: syntactic density; semantic density; relative repleteness; exemplificationality; and complex reference. On such a multi-dimensional conception, aestheticness obviously becomes very much a matter of degree.
2003, Jerrold Levinson, “Philosophical Aesthetics: An Overview”, in Jerrold Levinson, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part I (Background), page 12Synonyms: aestheticality, aestheticalness, aestheticity · Antonyms: unaestheticness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe quality of being aesthetic.
Origin
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