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aesthetician

aesthetician

1 9.8
A person who studies what people find beautiful and why
  • noun
  • /ˌiːsθɛˈtɪʃən/
: esteticista
  • During our session, the aesthetician explained the principles of beauty and how they apply to skin care.
  • aesthetician and philosopher
  • aesthetician and historian
  • aesthetician and critic

Examples

  • I trust my aesthetician's advice on what treatments to use for a radiant complexion.

  • This critical focus was explained and justified during the artist's lifetime by the aesthetician, the abbe Dubos.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Umberto Eco, the Italian aesthetician, introduces the term "open work," a work that wants to make its audience a co-creator.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Aestheticians and philosophers are usually concerned with descriptions of experiences of the sublime.

    Academic text (2002)
  • In assessing the state of dance in education in the early 1980s, aesthetician Curtis L. Carter concluded that its role was expanding "from its original locus in physical education to its inclusion among the fine arts."

    Academic text (1996)
  • If we ponder a bit longer on the phenomenon, we should not be astounded by the terminological inventiveness because the sublime is a category that, for aestheticians, is similar to the beautiful, so it must be, as the beautiful is, ubiquitous.

    Academic text (2002)
  • An aesthetician taught me how to choose the best products for my skin type.

Synonyms

aestheticist
vsaesthetician
  • Literature
1 8.3

A person who thinks art and beauty are important for their own sake

is an academic philosopher who studies the nature of beauty and aesthetic experience

Surface Forms

aesthetician singular
aestheticians plural

Morphology

aesthetician = aesthetic (transparent) = aesthetic + ian

The meaning is directly derived from 'aesthetic' + the agentive suffix '-ian' meaning a specialist or follower.

Etymology

Aesthetician comes from the Greek root aesth- meaning 'to feel' or 'to sense', and it is the same idea behind the word aesthetic. So an aesthetician is someone who studies how people feel about beauty and art.