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aesthetic distance

noun

  1. 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.

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