aesthetic information en · NOUN
Etymology
Calque of French information esthétique, as used by French social psychologist and philosopher Abraham Moles in his Théorie de l’information et perception esthétique (1958).
Meanings
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(uncountable) Sensory information that cannot be articulated in language.
If esthetic information is a key element in the structure of political cognitions, it is clearly of crucial importance to learn as much as possible about the dynamics of their generation. Which forms of political cues convey or reinforce which meanings in mass publics?
1971, Murray Edelman, Politics as Symbolic Action: Mass Arousal and Quiescence, page 36:Coordinate term: semantic information
Skimming and scanning were two of the main hyper-reading techniques encouraged by the abundance of aesthetic information in the turn-of-the-century ILN and Graphic numbers.
2021, Alison Hedley, Making Pictorial Print: Media Literacy and Mass Culture in British Magazines, 1885–1918, →ISBN, page 82:That is to say that the feeling we experience when we see leaves fluttering in the wind is difficult to translate into a verbal description or a drawing. Aesthetic information has no immediate, direct use.
2020 [2015], Jörg Kurt Grütter, Basics of Perception in Architecture, →ISBN, page 5:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| esthetic information | alternative | lexicographic |