esthetics
noun
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(art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art)
traditional aesthetics assumed the existence of universal and timeless criteria of artistic value
Types & categories
- philosophy hypernym
Related & opposite
- esthetician derivation
- esthetic derivation
- artistic creation domain topic
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | esthetician |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | esthetic |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | artistic creation |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | philosophy |