different between aesthetic vs allure

English

Alternative forms

• æsthetic, esthetic

Etymology

From German Ästhetik or French esthétique, both from Ancient Greek ?????????? (aisth?tikós, “of sense perception”), from ?????????? (aisthánomai, “I feel”).

Pronunciation

• (Conservative RP) IPA^(key): /es.??e.t?k/, /i?s.??e.t?k/
• (Contemporary RP) IPA^(key): /?s.???.t?k/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s.??e.t?k/, /i?s.??e.t?k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s.???.t?k/
• Rhymes: -?t?k

Adjective

aesthetic (comparative more aesthetic, superlative most aesthetic)

1. Concerned with beauty, artistic impact, or appearance.
2. (nonstandard) Beautiful or appealing to one's sense of beauty and/or art.
   • 1881, W. S. Gilbert, Patience, 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

Translations

Noun

aesthetic (plural aesthetics)

1. The study of art or beauty.
2. That which appeals to the senses.
3. The artistic motifs defining a collection of things, especially works of art; more broadly, their vibe.

Translations

Derived terms

Further reading

• "aesthetic" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 31.

Anagrams

• cheatiest

English

Etymology

From Middle English aluren, from Old French aleurer, alurer, from a (“to, towards”) (Latin ad) + leurre (“lure”). Compare lure.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??l(j)??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

allure (countable and uncountable, plural allures)

1. The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
2. (dated) gait; bearing.
   • Harper's Magazine

     The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men.

3. The walkway along the top of a castle wall, sometimes entirely covered and normally behind a parapet; the wall walk.

Translations

Verb

allure (third-person singular simple present allures, present participle alluring, simple past and past participle allured)

1. (transitive) To entice; to attract.

Synonyms

• attract, entice, tempt, decoy, seduce

Translations

Related terms

• lure

Anagrams

• Laurel, laurel

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French allure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ly?.r?/
• Hyphenation: al?lu?re
• Rhymes: -y?r?

Noun

allure f (plural allures)

1. air, pretension

Derived terms

• sterallure

French

Etymology

aller +? -ure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ly?/
• Rhymes: -y?

Noun

allure f (plural allures)

1. appearance, look
2. speed, pace
3. angle of a boat from the wind
4. gait (of a horse)
5. chemin de ronde (raised protected walkway behind a castle battlement)

Derived terms

• à toute allure

Descendants

• ? Dutch: allure

Further reading

• “allure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• la leur