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aesthetical

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

adjective

  1. of or relating to aesthetics.


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Etymology

Origin of aesthetical

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

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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

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

And it was not merely with the bringing forward of new materials, but by throwing new lights on the old, that Frederick Schlegel enriched aesthetical science.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 by Various

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