/es thet"ik/ or, esp. Brit., /ees-/ , adj.
1. pertaining to a sense of the beautiful or to the science of aesthetics.
2. having a sense of the beautiful; characterized by a love of beauty.
3. pertaining to, involving, or concerned with pure emotion and sensation as opposed to pure intellectuality.
n.
4. a philosophical theory or idea of what is aesthetically valid at a given time and place: the clean lines, bare surfaces, and sense of space that bespeak the machine-age aesthetic.
5. aesthetics.
6. Archaic. the study of the nature of sensation.
Also, esthetic .
[ 1815-25; aestheticus aisthetikós, equiv. to aisthet ( és ) (see AESTHETE) + -ikos -IC ]
Syn. 2. discriminating, cultivated, refined.