aesthetical

American  

[es-thet-i-kuhl, ees-] / ɛsˈθɛt ɪ kəl, is- /

adjective

1. of or relating to aesthetics.

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Other Word Forms

• nonaesthetical adjective
• nonaesthetically adverb
• superaesthetical adjective
• superaesthetically adverb

Etymology

Origin of aesthetical

First recorded in 1790–1800; aesthetic, -al ¹

Example Sentences

Our ecosystems provide us with food, medicine, clean air and water, recreation, and spiritual and aesthetical inspiration.

From Textbooks • Sep. 6, 2018

I study their shapes and behaviors and connect them to my conceptual and aesthetical concerns.

From Washington Post

"A lot of people at first thought that industrial design dealt with superficial aesthetical things, with shape," says Professor Herbert Lindinger of the Technical University of Hannover.

From Time Magazine Archive

But rationality has at least four dimensions, intellectual, aesthetical, moral, and practical; and to find a world rational to the maximal degree in all these respects simultaneously is no easy matter.

From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William

Even so, it may be said, the human mind is the subject of a complicated Teleology,—the field ruled by a multifarious Ought, psychological, aesthetical, social and religious.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich