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aesthetic emotion

aesthetic emotion Aesthetic emotion is the mental excitement connected with aesthetic experience, which may feel pleasant, unpleasant, or mixed.

Aesthetic emotion is the mental excitement connected with aesthetic experience, which may feel pleasant, unpleasant, or mixed. It refers to more intellectual and spiritual aspects of response rather than simple sensory pleasure or pain, and in this older usage it is close in meaning to sentiment.

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Drafting source: Baldwin Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, 1901. 1901 New York Macmillan original; archive index checked 2026-10-18. “Emotion (aesthetic)” (Emotion (aesthetic)).
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