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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 US, esthete [ˈiːsθiːt]
n
a person who has or who affects a highly developed appreciation of beauty, esp in poetry and the visual arts
[back formation from aesthetics]
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
Translations
aesthete esthete (US) [ˈiːsθiːt] N → esteta mf
aesthete [ˈiːsθiːt] n → esthète mf
aesthete, (US) esthete
n → Ästhet(in) m(f)
aesthete esthete (Am) [ˈiːsθiːt] n → esteta m/f


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They came together in shared commitment to anti-Stalinist Left politics, but they were really esthetes first and political people second.
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There is little chance that future esthetes will find themselves poring over Cunningham's oeuvre, but archivists and cultural historians will probably bless his name.
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Those people who defend the sonorities of the King James Version of the Bible against any later translations, to take one of many examples, are not really defenders of tradition so much as they are esthetes.
Pass it on by Garvey, John / Commonweal
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