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aesthete

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aes·thete or es·thete  (stht)
n.
1. One who cultivates an unusually high sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature.
2. One whose pursuit and admiration of beauty is regarded as excessive or affected.
[Back-formation from aesthetic.]
aesthete or US esthete [eess-theet]
Noun
a person who has or who pretends to have a highly developed appreciation of beauty
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.aesthete - one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature
esthete
cognoscente, connoisseur - an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts


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The service would have been pronounced by any modern aesthetic religionist--or religious aesthete, which is it?
Sylvie and Bruno by Carroll, Lewis View in context
She was clad in a somewhat strange garb of peacock green and peacock blue satins, that gleamed like blue and green metals, such as delight children and aesthetes, and her heavy, hot brown hair framed one of those magic faces which are dangerous to all men, but especially to boys and to men growing grey.
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