aesthetic

Meaning

Adj

1. Concerned with beauty, artistic effect, or appearance.
2. (proscribed, rare) 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 set of artistic motifs defining a collection of things, especially works of art; more broadly, their aura or “vibe”.

Opposite of

inaesthetic, unaesthetic

Synonyms

esthetic

aesthetical

artistic

esthetical

tasteful

decorative

elegant

artistical

esthetics

in good taste

pleasing

sensible

sensitive

sensuous

sentient

stylized

beautiful

aesthetics

Translations

esthétique

estético

ästhetisch

estetico

estético

estètic

esthetisch

αισθητικός

estética

Ästhetik

estética

καλαίσθητος

estetica

estetic

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɛsˈθɛt.ɪk/

Etymology

Cognate with Sanskrit: आविस्

Cognate with Latin: audiō

In summary

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.