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Aesthetic vs Cute - What's the difference?

aesthetic | cute |

As adjectives the difference between aesthetic and cute

is that aesthetic is concerned with beauty, artistic impact, or appearance while cute is possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.

As a noun aesthetic

is the study of art or beauty.

aesthetic

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Alternative forms

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Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Concerned with beauty, artistic impact, or appearance.
    • It works well enough, but the shabby exterior offends his aesthetic sensibilities.
  • * 1881 , , Act I:
    • If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare,
    You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.

    Synonyms

    * aesthetical * esthetic * tasteful

    Antonyms

    * inaesthetic * unaesthetic

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The study of art or beauty.
  • That which appeals to the senses.

    • Derived terms

    * aesthetically * aesthetician * aesthetics * aesthete * aesthetisation

    Anagrams

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    cute

    English

    (wikipedia)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
    • Our reaction to cute attributes is understood as the way nature ensures mammals care for their young.
  • Generally, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
    • Let's go to the mall and look for cute girls.
    Emma is so damn cute .
  • Affected]] or contrived to charm; [[mince#Verb, mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
    • The actor's performance was too cute for me. All that mugging to the audience killed the humor.
    Don't get cute with me, boy!
  • Mentally keen or discerning; clever; shrewd; see (acute).
    • Cute trick, but can you do it consistently?

    Derived terms

    * cuteness * cutely * cutesy * cutie * cute as a button * cute hoor