aesthetic.

1. Concerned with beauty, artistic form, or the appreciation of them.

2. An overall artistic style or set of principles shaping appearance and creative choices.

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Words that belong together

• aesthetic judgment
• aesthetic value

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Her aesthetic judgment favored the damaged original over the flawless copy.

The machine had an aesthetic value no engineer had intended.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more aesthetic; superlative most aesthetic where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.