Timeline for Can you say something is aesthetic?
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| Feb 25, 2015 at 23:04 | comment | added | ColleenV | I could see a sentence like, "While this breed of dog was originally valued as a hunting dog, over time the dog's appeal has become more aesthetic than functional." | |
| Feb 22, 2015 at 18:04 | comment | added | user8719 | I doubt a native speaker would say "The dog's appeal is aesthetic". Now if the sentence was, "The dog has a red collar" we could certainly say "The dog's collar is red". I don't know what it is about "aesthetic" that makes the second form unused. Maybe just idiom, or maybe a technical reason surrounding the type of adjective "appeal" is. I've asked on the big kids' forum and I'll report back. | |
| Feb 18, 2015 at 22:16 | comment | added | ColleenV | Could you say "The dog's appeal is aesthetic" ? I think the problem might be that aesthetic isn't a synonym for "beautiful", so when you say "The dog is aesthetic." it doesn't make sense. Aesthetic is more like "relating to beauty" and is the opposite of a word like functional in the sense of definition #2: Designed to be practical and useful, rather than attractive. | |
| Feb 18, 2015 at 6:28 | history | answered | user8719 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |