Re: Aesthetic/estetica
| From: | Bryan Maloney <bjm10@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 12, 1999, 16:29 |
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On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Edward Heil wrote:
> Aesthetic has to do with fine feelings (usually those produced by
> something beautiful); its opposite, anaesthetic, has to do with a
> complete lack of feelings.
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> "Opposite" in a loose sense of course. :) This is an interesting
Anaesthetic is not the opposite, though, it's merely the negation. The
closest we might have to an opposite to aesthetic in English would be
"ascetic".