aestheticalness

English

Etymology

From aesthetical +‎ -ness.

Noun

aestheticalness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being aesthetic.

   Synonyms: aestheticality, aestheticity, aestheticness

   Antonym: unaestheticness

   • 1943 February, Enness, “[Letter from National Secretary]”, in The National Secretary, volume 8, number 2, The National Association of School Secretaries, page 36, column 1:

     She has a feeling, she says, that I should be practical with a smitchin of aestheticalness or something about me.

   • 1990, Winfried Nöth, “Aesthetics”, in Handbook of Semiotics (Advances in Semiotics), Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, section VIII (Aesthetics and Visual Communication), page 422, column 1:

     Only recently have semioticians shown a renewed interest in aesthetic features of nature. Thus, Sebeok (1981) has studied prefigurements of visual art and music with animals, and Koch (1984) has developed a phylogenetic theory of the evolution of the arts, based on earlier universal theories of aestheticalness (cf. Koch 1971b).

   • 2000, Luciano Nanni, translated by Corrado Federici, “Toward a Typology of Twentieth Century Aesthetic Theories on the Cause of Polysemy”, in Communication: The Power of Location: Essays on Adespotic Aesthetics (Semiotics and the Human Sciences; 19), New York, N.Y.: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 42:

     Today one such theory can be found in the work of aesthetician Jan Mukařovský who contends that anything can become the vehicle for the aesthetic function and so anything can become art. Aestheticalness is not connected with the intrinsic characteristics of things, but is something external to them, in this case their usage (the use of the things, no matter what they are) which, at a given time t and in a given space s, a given culture c turns them into art.

Translations

quality of being aesthetic — see aestheticness