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Aesthetic vs Event - What's the difference?

aesthetic | event |

As nouns the difference between aesthetic and event

is that aesthetic is the study of art or beauty while event is an occurrence; something that happens.

As an adjective aesthetic

is concerned with beauty, artistic impact, or appearance.

aesthetic

English

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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    event

    English

    (wikipedia event)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An occurrence; something that happens.
  • * Macaulay
    • the events of his early years
  • An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
  • *, II.3.3:
    • hard beginnings have many times prosperous events  […].
  • * 1707 , , by Eccles and Congrieve; scene 8
    • Of my ill boding Dream / Behold the dire Event .
  • * Young
    • dark doubts between the promise and event
    In the event , he turned out to have what I needed anyway.
  • (physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
  • (computing) A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.
  • (probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
    • If X is a random variable representing the toss of a six-sided die, then its sample space could be denoted as {1,2,3,4,5,6}. Examples of events could be: X = 1, X = 2, X \ge 5, X \not = 4, and X \isin \{1,3,5\}.
  • (obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Leave we him to his events .
  • (lb) An episode of severe health conditions.

    • Derived terms

    * blessed event * credit event * current events * doomsday event * eventful * event horizon * eventless * eventual * in the event * K-T extinction event * media event * quick time event * risk event * sentinel event * social event * speciation event * to be wise after the event

    External links

    * * 1000 English basic words