Aestheticize
to depict as being pleasing or artistically beautiful; represent in an idealized or refined manner.
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- Aestheticism
the acceptance of artistic beauty and taste as a fundamental standard, ethical and other standards being secondary. an exaggerated devotion to art, music, or poetry, with indifference to practical matters. a late victorian movement in british and american art characterized by a dedicatedly eclectic search for beauty and by an interest in old english, j-panese, […]
- Aesthetics
the branch of philosophy dealing with such notions as the beautiful, the ugly, the sublime, the comic, etc., as applicable to the fine arts, with a view to establishing the meaning and validity of critical judgments concerning works of art, and the principles underlying or justifying such judgments. the study of the mind and emotions […]
- Aestival
. adjective (rare) of or occurring in summer adjective pertaining to summer word origin latin aestas ‘summer’ usage note variant of estival
- Aestivate
. historical examples in such cases the insect must aestivate rather than hibernate. b-tterflies worth knowing clarence m. weed the australian mudfish (ceratodus) is not known to hibernate or aestivate. encyclopaedia britannica, 11th edition, volume 13, slice 4 various verb (intransitive) to p-ss the summer (of animals such as the lungfish) to p-ss the summer […]
- Aestivation
. historical examples aestivation (summer sleep) is the similar condition in which other species p-ss periods of heat or drought in warm lat-tudes. encyclopaedia britannica, 11th edition, volume 13, slice 4 various of the physiology of aestivation nothing definite appears to have been ascertained. encyclopaedia britannica, 11th edition, volume 13, slice 4 various noun the […]