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greentricky
Have I been misusing the word "aesthetic" all my life, or has it changed a bit?
I'd previously understood it to refer the visual properties of a thing - something could be aesthetically pleasing or not, or have positive or negative aesthetics.
However I keep seeing people refer to things as aesthetic, e.g "that's aesthetic" or "how I became aesthetic".
Am I daft or is that sort of thing a new use of the word? The second example seems equivalent to saying something like "how I became height".
Edit to add I do not think these people are confusing aesthetic with ascetic.