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comparative more aesthetic, superlative most aesthetic
Concerned with beauty, artistic effect, or appearance. quotations examples
If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare,You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.
1881, W. S. Gilbert, Patience, act I
If Euston is not typically English, St. Pancras is. Its façade is a nightmare of improbable Gothic. It is fairly plastered with the aesthetic ideals of 1868, and the only beautiful thing about it is Barlow's roof. It is haunted by the stuffier kind of ghost. Yet there is something about the ordered whole of St. Pancras that would make demolition a terrible pity.
1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 358
Beautiful or appealing to one's sense of beauty or art. quotations examples
The station was rebuilt yet again by British Rail in 1967, when large chunks of the 19th century station were demolished and replaced with 'modern' buildings that were less than aesthetic.
2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Wakefield Kirkgate”, in RAIL, number 948, page 28
plural aesthetics
The study of art or beauty. examples
That which appeals to the senses. examples
The artistic motifs defining a collection of things, especially works of art; more broadly, their aura or “vibe”. examples