aestheticness

English

Etymology

From aesthetic +‎ -ness.

Noun

aestheticness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being aesthetic.

   Synonyms: aestheticality, aestheticalness, aestheticity

   Antonym: unaestheticness

   • 1915, “Seniors 1915”, in The Serpentine, West Chester, Pa.: The Senior Class of West Chester State Normal School, page 117:

     This picture resembles her, of course, but one must see her with her “specks” on to fully appreciate her “aestheticness.”

   • 1988 March 22, “To the Editor”, in Cathy Gaughran, editor, The Rotunda, 67th year, number 20, Farmville, Va.: Longwood College, page 2, column 4:

     There have been great improvements made in the interior of the dining hall over the four years that I have attended Longwood, however the "graffiti" on the drinking area walls distract from the overall aestheticness of the dining area.

   • 2003, Jerrold Levinson, “Philosophical Aesthetics: An Overview”, in Jerrold Levinson, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part I (Background), page 12:

     Mention must also be made here of Goodman (1968), a rather different approach to theorizing the aesthetic, which offers five symptoms, not of aesthetic propertyhood, but of aesthetic functioning on the part of a symbol system: syntactic density; semantic density; relative repleteness; exemplificationality; and complex reference. On such a multi-dimensional conception, aestheticness obviously becomes very much a matter of degree.

Translations

quality of being aesthetic — see aestheticity