( <美> 亦作esthetic)
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- concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty美感的; 美学的; 审美的：
the pictures give great aesthetic pleasure.
这些画给人带来强烈的美感。
1.1
- giving or designed to give pleasure through beauty; of pleasing appearance带来美感的, 外观悦目的。
in sing.
- a set of principles underlying and guiding the work of a particular artist or artistic movement美学原则：
the Cubist aesthetic.
立体派美学原则。
派生词
aesthetically
adverban aesthetically pleasing colour combination .
带来愉悦美感的色彩组合。
词源
late 18th cent. （in the sense 'relating to perception by the senses'）： from Greek aisthētikos, from aisthēta 'perceptible things'， from aisthesthai 'perceive'. The sense 'concerned with beauty' was coined in German in the mid 18th cent.and adopted into English in the early 19th cent.But its use was controversial until much later in the century.