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Aesthetic vs Exquisite - What's the difference?

aesthetic | exquisite |

As adjectives the difference between aesthetic and exquisite

is that aesthetic is concerned with beauty, artistic impact, or appearance while exquisite is especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.

As nouns the difference between aesthetic and exquisite

is that aesthetic is the study of art or beauty while exquisite is fop, dandy.

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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    exquisite

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.
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  • *:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
  • (lb) Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.
  • ; far-fetched; abstruse.
  • Of special beauty or rare excellence.
  • Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.
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  • Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.
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  • *(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
  • *:his books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite

    • Synonyms

    * beautiful, delicate, discriminating

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) Fop, dandy.
  • * 1925 , , Random House, London:2007, p. 42.
    • So striking was his appearance that two exquisites , emerging from the Savoy Hotel and pausing on the pavement to wait for a vacant taxi, eyed him with pained disapproval as he approached, and then, starting, stared in amazement.
  • *:: 'Good Lord!' said the first exquisite .