- a variation of aesthetics.
esthetics
Americannoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
This month, voters in Lovell, Maine, overwhelmingly elected to kill a proposed 180-acre solar farm over concerns it would harm the town’s mountain views and rural esthetics.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 22, 2022
“For me esthetics is everything involved in the process — the workers, the politics, the negotiations, the construction difficulty, the dealings with hundreds of people,” he told The New York Times in 1972.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2020
In the epigraph I use from Aldo Leopold he questions if there’s any real distinction between esthetics and economics.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 14, 2019
To dismiss that entire range of the ideological spectrum merely brands us as intellectually dwarfed, as if we have no thoughts on the esthetics of cities or the beauty of rivers.
From Forbes ● Sep. 26, 2014
He listened to philosophic discussions, to metaphysics, to esthetics, to impersonal experience.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
