aestheticism
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.
Origin of aestheticism
1- Also estheticism.
Words Nearby aestheticism
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How to use aestheticism in a sentence
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.
The Secret Glory | Arthur Machenaestheticism and carnality are by no means as dissociate as the æsthete would have us believe.
Religion and Lust | James WeirCall it aestheticism, squeamishness, namby-pamby sentimentalism, what you will it is stronger than oneself!
The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy | John Galsworthyaestheticism (for so they named the movement,) did indeed permeate, in a manner, all classes.
The Works of Max Beerbohm | Max Beerbohm
It is a custom that is instinctively condemned by everyone from the standpoint of both hygiene and aestheticism.
Encyclopedia of Diet | Eugene Christian
British Dictionary definitions for aestheticism
sometimes US estheticism
/ (iːsˈθɛtɪˌsɪzəm, ɪs-) /
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
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