aesthetic vs acetic vs ascetic
Definitions
noun
- (philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful
adjective
- relating to or dealing with the subject of aesthetics
- aesthetically pleasing
- concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste
Examples
A steady stream of self-released mix tapes and videos - all adhering to the group's cartoonishly horrifying aesthetic, all a bit more deranged than the rest - increased the buzz and kept the conversation going.
The term aesthetics was coined in the eighteenth century by the German philosopher Alexander Baumgarten from the Greek word aisthetikos meaning “perceptive, especially by feeling”.
Mineral filled, toughened, lubricated polybutylene terephthalate resin for injection moldingsurface aesthetics.
Definitions
adjective
- relating to or containing acetic acid
Examples
The ether gradually absorbs oxygen from the atmosphere, being converted into acetic acid; this, by its superior affinities, reacts on the iodide present, converting it into acetate, with liberation of hydriodic acid; while this latter, under the influence of the atmospheric oxygen, is very rapidly converted into water and iodine.
And that desire to foster a copacetic synthesis between carbon-based life forms and artificial devices can be heard in every blip and digitized beat played.
Acetic acid is the chief active ingredient in vinegar.
Definitions
adjective
- practicing great self-denial
- pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline
noun
- someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
Examples
Across the cleric's ascetic features a happy smile slowly and conqueringly spread.
The program started off ascetically with "Six Studies in English Folksong" which the program warned us were "very melancholic," continued with a song cycle for violin and tenor called "Along the Field" to poems by A.E. Houseman, and finished off the first half with insanely Pre-Raphaelite lushness to a song cycle set to Dante Gabriel Rosetti poems called "The House of Life.
Orphaned and blinded from childhood, he became an ascetic freethinker and materialist.
