Definitions
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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Examples
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A cultivated esthete, Manookian was fascinated by the French novelist Gustave Flaubert's Salammbo, a historical novel set in ancient Carthage.
John Seed: The Other Armenian: Arman Manookian's Short Life, and His Art 2010
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It makes him the CEO as esthete -- as un-American an image as they come.
Jesse Kornbluth: Steve Jobs at 'D': When You're an App, You're an App All the Way 2010
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If you were to ask our eight-year-old where she spends her weekends, her current answer would be the Museum of Modern Art. And not because she's a mini-esthete with beret and attitude -- this season MOMA simply packs more fun in a single building than any other venue in Manhattan.
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It makes him the CEO as esthete -- as un-American an image as they come.
Jesse Kornbluth: Steve Jobs at 'D': When You're an App, You're an App All the Way 2010
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My wife and I and our Arab friends mourned the death of a passionate esthete who brought great wit and discernment to the arid confines of Amman society.
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Even that relentless esthete Edward Weston, a man accustomed to making things look the way he thought they should look, tips his hat to the desert's brutal power with his 1937 portrait of a dead drifter that he literally stumbled on while walking in the desert near San Diego.
Shooting The West 2008
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They could have been bolder about giving Southern artists a bigger share of the spotlight, but even in their timidity, they have showcased enough top-drawer Southern culture to satisfy the most demanding esthete.
The Arts Games 2008
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I'd always had the impression that golf was something of an esthete sport, what with the collared polo shirt tucked in to khakis with belt.
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Blunt art historian, esthete, and homosexual was a distant cousin of Queen Mary.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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Leader of the esthete Florentine layabouts was Seymour Kirkup, a Brit painter with it was said too much money and not enough talent.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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