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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Properly, one who cultivates the sense of the beautiful; one in whom the artistic sense or faculty is highly developed; one very sensible of the beauties of nature or art.
  • noun Commonly, a person who affects great love of art, music, poetry, and the like, and corresponding indifference to practical matters; one who carries the cultivation of subordinate forms of the beautiful to an exaggerated extent: used in slight contempt.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • Same as æsthete, æsthetic, æsthetical, æsthetics, etc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative spelling of aesthete.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature

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