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estheticism

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[es-thet-uh-siz-uhm] / ɛsˈθɛt əˌsɪz əm /

noun

  1. aestheticism.


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She is a sort of Reader's Digest to the world's philosophies, dipping briefly into Zen, Yoga, evangelism, estheticism and existentialism.

From Time Magazine Archive

The purpose of Patience, as Savoyards are aware, was to discourage with flippancies the petaled estheticism of the silly '70s.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some touch of austere estheticism in it has fascinated you.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mildest, most influential apostle of the new, sensuous estheticism was Oxford's Walter Pater.

From Time Magazine Archive

Naturally, for it had had its origin in Mrs. Pemberton's strenuous estheticism and double parlors—possessions of which few Comstockers could boast.

From The Madigans by Orson Lowell

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