esthete

American  

[es-theet] / ˈɛs θit /

noun

1. aesthete.

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esthete British  

/ ɛsˈθɛtɪk, ˌiːsθɪˈtɪʃən, ˈiːsθiːt /

noun

1. a US spelling of aesthete

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Other Word Forms

• esthetic adjective
• esthetically adverb
• esthetician noun
• estheticism noun
• esthetics noun
• hyperesthete noun

Explanation

An esthete is someone with good artistic taste, a person who appreciates beauty. If you're an esthete you can easily spend an entire day wandering around an art museum. Esthetes tend to be especially sensitive to beautiful things and skilled at seeing the beauty in the world. If you're an esthete, you might carefully set the table with flowers and lovely plates every night before dinner — you might also spend hours admiring the color of the sky and the shape of the clouds. You can also spell it aesthete, from the Greek root aisthetes, "one who perceives."

Example Sentences

In “Wilde’s Women,” Eleanor Fitzsimons reminds us of the many writers, actresses, political activists, professional beauties and aristocratic ladies who helped shape the life and legend of the era’s greatest wit, esthete and sexual martyr.

From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2016

Initially known simply as an esthete, Wilde hadn’t published much beyond some poems when he embarked on a lecture tour of the United States.

From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2016

He still has this ability, and when he picks up a potsherd, he handles it as tenderly as a Chinese esthete caressing a piece of jade.

From Time Magazine Archive

In tall and feathery words, an ecstatic esthete in the New Republic called it "New York's most important musical event of several decades."

From Time Magazine Archive

But she was not there to be entertained with the vacillations of a minor Victorian esthete.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee