aestheticity

English

Etymology

From aesthetic +‎ -ity.

Noun

aestheticity (uncountable)

1. The quality of being aesthetic.

   Synonyms: aestheticality, aestheticalness, aestheticness

   Antonym: unaestheticness

   • 1963, Giacomo Devoto, translated by M[ills] F[ox] Edgerton, Jr., “Space-Time”, in Linguistics and Literary Criticism (Language and Culture), New York, N.Y.: S. F. Vanni […], pages 58–59:

     In the realm of space-time which we are considering, there is only one passage, from the aesthetic (positive or indifferent) creation to juridical recognition, from liberty to discipline. For this reason we recognize the basic aestheticity of all linguistic creations and, at the same time, its irrelevance to the end of defining the nature of linguistic systems.

   • 1975 April 24, Nell Jordan, “Day of the Locust: Movie pronounced grotesque”, in Eva Gantt, editor, The Profile, volume LXI, number 20, Decatur, Ga.: Agnes Scott College, page 3, column 2:

     Personally, West’s love (or horror, it’s hard to say which) of the grotesque, degenerated aspects of human existence is repugnant to my perhaps too carefully cultivated aestheticity.

   • 1980, Calvin Seerveld, “The fundamental importance of imaginativity within schooling”, in Rainbows for the Fallen World: Aesthetic Life and Artistic Task, Toronto, Ont.: Toronto Tuppence Press, →ISBN, page 150:

     Although my thoughts are only at a beginning stage on these matters, I should like to propose that if aestheticity and all its many functions is indeed so fundamental to human life, it would seem to be important to give it curricular attention.

Translations

quality of being aesthetic — see aestheticness