esthetics

Questions about esthetics

What does esthetics mean?

esthetics 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 esthetics?

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

What is another word for esthetics?

Close synonyms include aesthetics. 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 esthetics a common word?

esthetics is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. 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 esthetics?

2 words rhyme with esthetics. 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 esthetics 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.