aesthetically

[ es-thet-ik-lee or, esp. British, ees- ]

/ ɛsˈθɛt ɪk li or, esp. British, is- /

according to aesthetics or its principles.

in an aesthetic manner.

Nearby words

First recorded in 1820–30; aesthetical + -ly

Related formspseu·do·aes·thet·i·cal·ly, adverb

Aesthetically, “Why We Fight” perfectly recalls the fevered early years of AIDS activism.
Finally, an Accurate Look Back at AIDS Activism in ‘Why We Fight’|Hugh Ryan|December 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Seoul is, as its boosters claim, fully modern but also both highly congested and aesthetically barren.
City Leaders Are in Love With Density but Most City Dwellers Disagree|Joel Kotkin|September 16, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The economist Tyler Cowen critiqued the high-end inventory as “aesthetically abysmal” and “drastically overpriced.”
Amazon Opens Fine Art Market|Filipa Ioannou|August 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Musically, intellectually, aesthetically, Questlove emerges as one of the good guys.
Heavy Mental Drummer: Questlove’s Almost Memoir|John Ortved|June 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST

Her uncanny juxtapositions are provocative—spatially, aesthetically, and psychologically.
The Artist Formerly Known as Janet Malcolm|Lauren Du Graf|June 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Everything his eye fell on it feasted on, not aesthetically, but with a plain, jolly appetite as of a boy eating buns.
The Ball and The Cross|G.K. Chesterton
The nation is, aesthetically considered, now in its period of development.
O. T.|Hans Christian Andersen
They interest us; they may move us too in a hundred different ways, but they do not move us aesthetically.
Art|Clive Bell
Commercially and aesthetically it is unwise to make servings too large.
Quantity Cookery|Lenore Richards
The gruesome noise he was emitting did not really affect us otherwise than aesthetically.
The Golden Age|Kenneth Grahame