aesthetics

Questions about aesthetics

What does aesthetics mean?

aesthetics means "(art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art)".

How many syllables are in aesthetics?

aesthetics has 3 syllables: aes-thet-ics. The stress falls on "thet". In IPA it is /ɛsˈθɛtɪks/.

What is another word for aesthetics?

Close synonyms include esthetics. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aesthetics a common word?

aesthetics is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with aesthetics?

2 words rhyme with aesthetics. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for aesthetics come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.