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, Japanese, […]
- 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. Butterflies 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 pass the summer (of animals such as the lungfish) to pass the summer […]
- Aestivation
. Historical Examples aestivation (summer sleep) is the similar condition in which other species pass periods of heat or drought in warm latitudes. 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 […]