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aesthetic distance
noun
- a degree of detachment from or nonidentification with the characters or circumstances of a work of art, permitting the formation of judgments based on aesthetic rather than extra-aesthetic criteria.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of aesthetic distance1
First recorded in 1935–40
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Example Sentences
But Johnson of Cheshire lacked the aesthetic distance required of sustained irony and had a grander purpose in mind.
From Project Gutenberg
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