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aestheticism

[ es-thet-uh-siz-uhmor, especially British, ees- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the acceptance of artistic beauty and taste as a fundamental standard, ethical and other standards being secondary.
an exaggerated devotion to art, music, or poetry, with indifference to practical matters.
a late Victorian movement in British and American art characterized by a dedicatedly eclectic search for beauty and by an interest in old English, Japanese, and classical art.

aestheticism

/ ɪs-; iːsˈθɛtɪˌsɪzəm /

the doctrine that aesthetic principles are of supreme importance and that works of art should be judged accordingly
sensitivity to beauty, esp in art, music, literature, etc

First recorded in 1855–60; aesthetic + -ism

This is part the judgmental aestheticism of my mother hovering in my consciousness like a vengeful Jewish Yoda.

Ruskin calls this a narrow asceticism; perhaps it was rather the result of a very subtle aestheticism.

Aestheticism and carnality are by no means as dissociate as the æsthete would have us believe.

Call it aestheticism, squeamishness, namby-pamby sentimentalism, what you will it is stronger than oneself!

Aestheticism (for so they named the movement,) did indeed permeate, in a manner, all classes.

It is a custom that is instinctively condemned by everyone from the standpoint of both hygiene and aestheticism.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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