aesthete
a person who has or professes to have refined sensitivity toward the beauties of art or nature.
a person who affects great love of art, music, poetry, etc., and indifference to practical matters.
Origin of aesthete
1- Also esthete.
Other words for aesthete
Other words from aesthete
- hy·per·aes·thete, noun
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How to use aesthete in a sentence
Everyone else seemed like naturally insouciant aesthetes, like they woke up with the knowledge of culture, art, and hipness, whereas everything I knew felt labored and deeply, obsessively limned.
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.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Vicente Blasco Ibanez
To everyone, except perhaps here and there an occasional aesthete, the commonest sense of the word is unaesthetic.
Art | Clive BellWe see that the man whose success is merely personal—the actor, the sophist, the millionaire, the aesthete—is incurably vulgar.
Soliloquies in England | George SantayanaThe service would have been pronounced by any modern aesthetic religionist—or religious aesthete, which is it?
Sylvie and Bruno | Lewis CarrollBut Becky Sharp's eyes also were green, and the green of the aesthete does not suggest innocence.
Prose Fancies (Second Series) | Richard Le Gallienne
British Dictionary definitions for aesthete
US esthete
/ (ˈiːsθiːt) /
a person who has or who affects a highly developed appreciation of beauty, esp in poetry and the visual arts
Origin of aesthete
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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