estheticism
Americannoun
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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.
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The purpose of Patience, as Savoyards are aware, was to discourage with flippancies the petaled estheticism of the silly '70s.
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Some touch of austere estheticism in it has fascinated you.
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Mildest, most influential apostle of the new, sensuous estheticism was Oxford's Walter Pater.
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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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