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aesthete
[ es-theetor, especially British, ees- ]
noun
- a person who has or professes to have refined sensitivity toward the beauties of art or nature.
Synonyms: connoisseur
- a person who affects great love of art, music, poetry, etc., and indifference to practical matters.
Synonyms: dilettante
aesthete
/ ˈiːsθiːt /
noun
- a person who has or who affects a highly developed appreciation of beauty, esp in poetry and the visual arts
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- hyper·aesthete noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of aesthete1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of aesthete1
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Example Sentences
The trouble was that the fight took on a life of its own, until the warrior in Hilton nearly crushed the aesthete.
He makes people who I call the aesthete—who have a very specific aesthetic point of view.
Edith was a fascinating character, at once a strict fundamentalist and a sophisticated, warm-hearted aesthete.
The aesthete who had so touched him with his impassioned voice, was going to say the saving word.
To everyone, except perhaps here and there an occasional aesthete, the commonest sense of the word is unaesthetic.
We see that the man whose success is merely personal—the actor, the sophist, the millionaire, the aesthete—is incurably vulgar.
The service would have been pronounced by any modern aesthetic religionist—or religious aesthete, which is it?
But Becky Sharp's eyes also were green, and the green of the aesthete does not suggest innocence.
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