Esthete

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  • noun. undefined
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • Same as æsthete, æsthetic, æsthetical, æsthetics, etc.
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  • noun. Alternative spelling of aesthete.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature
    • Word Usage
    "It makes him the CEO as esthete -- as un-American an image as they come."
    Equivalent
    esthetic  esthetical  esthetics  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cognoscente  connoisseur  
    variant
    aesthete  aesthetic  æsthetical  æsthetics  
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