aesthete

[ es-theet or, especially British, ees- ]

/ ˈɛs θit or, especially British, ˈis- /

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noun

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.

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1 connoisseur.

2 dilettante.

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Also esthete.

Origin of aesthete

1880–85; <Greek aisthētḗs one who perceives, equivalent to aisthē- (variant stem of aisthánesthai to perceive) + -tēs noun suffix denoting agent

OTHER WORDS FROM aesthete

hy·per·aes·thete, noun

Words nearby aesthete

Aesir, Aesop, Aesopian, Aesop's fables, aesthesia, aesthete, aesthetic, aesthetical, aesthetically, aesthetic distance, aesthetician

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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 great American cool|Safy-Hallan Farah|July 14, 2021|Vox
The trouble was that the fight took on a life of its own, until the warrior in Hilton nearly crushed the aesthete.
In Memoriam: Hilton Kramer|David Frum|April 11, 2012|DAILY BEAST
He makes people who I call the aesthete—who have a very specific aesthetic point of view.
Louboutin Looks Back|Isabel Wilkinson|November 3, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Edith was a fascinating character, at once a strict fundamentalist and a sophisticated, warm-hearted aesthete.
The Christian-Right Whistleblower|Michelle Goldberg|June 24, 2011|DAILY BEAST

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 Bell
We see that the man whose success is merely personal—the actor, the sophist, the millionaire, the aesthete—is incurably vulgar.
Soliloquies in England|George Santayana
The service would have been pronounced by any modern aesthetic religionist—or religious aesthete, which is it?
Sylvie and Bruno|Lewis Carroll
But 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

aesthete

US esthete

/ (ˈiːsθiːt) /

noun

a person who has or who affects a highly developed appreciation of beauty, esp in poetry and the visual arts

Word Origin for aesthete

C19: back formation from aesthetics

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