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Definition of Aesthetical
1. Adjective. Concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste. "The illustrations made the book an aesthetic success"
Similar to: Artistic, Cosmetic, Enhancive, Painterly, Sensuous
Derivative terms: Aesthetic, Aesthetics, Esthetics
Antonyms: Inaesthetic
Definition of Aesthetical
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to aesthetics. ¹
2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to beauty. ¹
3. Adjective. Aesthetic. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aesthetical
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aesthetical
Literary usage of Aesthetical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Philosophy of Music: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures by William Pole (1879)
"By aesthetical principles are meant such principles as have resulted from the
free action of the human mind, independently of any physical considerations. ..."
2. The Origin and Development of Religious Belief by Sabine Baring-Gould (1892)
"... aesthetical. C] REATION is the manifestation of Love, the Incarnation \J is
the perfection of that manifestation, the link between God and man is ..."
3. Kant's Kritik of Judgment by Immanuel Kant (1892)
"... and is consequently only called aesthetical on account of the confusion here
attaching to our reflection, although it is at bottom ideological. ..."
4. A Commentary on the Book of Daniel by Moses Stuart (1850)
"Style and aesthetical character of the look. No one can pass from the reading of
such books as Isaiah, Nahum, Habakkuk, and some other of the Minor Prophets ..."
5. A Commentary on the Apocalypse by Moses Stuart (1845)
"Aesthetical character of the Apocalypse. And now, what rhetorical judgment shall
we pass upon the plan of the writer and his execution of ..."
6. The five gateways of knowledge by George Wilson (1856)
"... for the tongue, as the organ of taste, is the commissary-general, without
whose supplies the other senses can achieve no aesthetical conquests, ..."
7. Psychology, Descriptive and Explanatory: A Treatise of the Phenomena, Laws by George Trumbull Ladd (1904)
"The dependence of aesthetical feeling upon the tendencies of human nature to
construct ideals, and upon the developing faculty of constructing ideals, ..."
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