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aesthetics

aes.thet.ics \es-'thet-iks\ n pl but sing or pl in constr  1: a branch of 
   philosophy dealing with the nature of the beautiful and with  judgments 
   concerning beauty 2: the description and explanation of artistic phenomena 
   and aesthetic expe rience by means of other sciences (as psychology, 
   sociology, ethnology, or history)