es·thete

(ĕs′thēt)

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esthete

(ˈiːsθiːt)

a US spelling of aesthete

esthetic, esˈthetical adj

esˈthetically adv

esthetician n

esˈthetiˌcism n

esˈthetics n

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aes•thete

or es•thete

(ˈɛs θit)

n.

1. a person who has or professes to have refined sensitivity toward the beauties of art or nature.

2. a person who affects great love of art, music, poetry, etc., and indifference to practical matters.

[1880–85; < Greek aisthētḗs one who perceives, derivative of aisthē-, variant s. of aisthánesthai to perceive]

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Noun

esthete - one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature

aesthete

cognoscente, connoisseur - an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts

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Above all, as we might think to point out the differences, Poe was--in the highest possible sense--an esthete: his religion, there from the first in "Al Aaraaf," was a religion of Beauty, from the worship of which his Angelo falls painfully away; and it was there at the end, with the "Poetic Principle," written to remind a more and more distracted world that an all-but-unquenchable instinct for some supernal beauty is our principal intimation of immortality.

Supernal Loveliness and Fantastic Foolery: The Esthetic Dimension in Poe and Hawthorne

(1.) Jared Becker is convinced that this 'politics of estheticism'--to use Thomas Mann's term--offers the 'esthete as a political arbiter', and offers the poet's 'beauties'--in this case nationalism and imperialism--as 'the substance of the nation's politics, overriding the materialist analyses of either socialist or capitalist polities'.

D'Annunzio's Il piacere: A generational gaze on new values

Top restaurants serve them with an esthete's reverence, and your palate thanks them.

Working farms for foodies

According to the annals of espionage, Fidrmuc was an esthete who was paid for his services with art objects.

Severo Sarduy on Galileo, Kepler, Borromini, and the coded language of the anamorphic image

Wayne Lewis travels as a global polymorphous esthete. The global, Ngug!

Peter Wayne Lewis: multilogues for the human: In exploring the work of Peter Wayne Lewis through the articulations that grid it, we enter the debates on artistic practices and invite a move beyond given limitations to more expansive visions

Proust est avant tout esthete: << Ce sont des ceuvres d'art, les choses magnifiques, qui sont chargees de nous donner les impressions familieres de la vie >>, dit le narrateur de la Recherche.

L'ecriture proustienne: pourrait-on appeler proust un ecrivain de "stream(s) of consciousness"?

Il y a longtemps que notre esthete n'a pas inscrit un but de folie.

Zlatan lance sa tournee d'adieux

That Beard did not become some kind of conservative Pre-Raphaelite esthete ever pining for the vanished certainties of medieval Christendom probably owes more to Hobson than to any other single thinker.

Charles Beard & the English historians

Lecter, who, as his psychiatrist Bedelia DuMaurier/Gillian Anderson observes, is at all times wearing "a well-tailored person suit," appears as his radical opposite: a sophisticated esthete whose experience of the world is always mediated by the artifice which dissimulates his savage impulses.

Long-form televisual narrative and operatic structure in Bryan Fuller's Hannibal

Quelque part entre l'albatros baudelairien et le "rossignol de la boue sans alies" de Corbiere, Plowert s'inscrit a merveille dans la posture decadente archetypale: se presentant comme un esthete de seconde zone que son originalite et son imprevisibilite rendent plus rebutant qu'attirant, il est la personne de papier toute designee pour endosser la responsabilite d'une reflexion sur le lexique symboliste.

La litterature masquee. Sur quelques deguisements auctoriaux fin de siecle