aesthetic

Significat (anglès)

Adj

1. Concerned with beauty, artistic effect, or appearance.
2. Beautiful or appealing to one's sense of beauty or art.

Noun

1. The study of art or beauty.
2. That which appeals to the senses.
3. The artistic motifs defining a collection of things, especially works of art; more broadly, their aura or “vibe”.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ɛsˈθɛt.ɪk/

Etimologia (anglès)

From German Ästhetik or French esthétique, both from New Latin aesthēticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek αἰσθητικός (aisthētikós, “of sense perception”), from αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai, “I feel”); Analysable as aesthe(sis) + -tic.
Cognates include Proto-Germanic *awiz (“obvious”), Sanskrit आविस् (āvís, “manifestly, evidently”) and Latin audiō.