Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Asthetics

Asthetics ({not transcribed}; 277) , noun

[Greek {not transcribed} perceptive, esp. by feeling, from {not transcribed} to perceive, feel: compare German asthetik, French esthétique.]

The theory or philosophy of taste; the science of the beautiful in nature and art; esp. that which treats of the expression and embodiment of beauty by art.

Also: Esthetics, AEsthetics