aestheticist
- noun
- /æˈsθɛtɪsɪst/
- Literature
:
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- As an aestheticist, she firmly believed that beauty and art should be appreciated for their own sake.
Examples
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In this text, in spite of some important qualifications, Beauvoir criticizes art and music as compelling but ultimately escapist and aestheticist activities in view of the world's suffering.
Academic text (2000) -
People are thus turned into the usually unwitting but indispensable servants of styles and hence of the (at least partly) undetermined creation of beauty that is contemplated by aestheticist observers.
Academic text (1999) -
The lecture on aestheticism attracted many aestheticists who argue for the intrinsic value of art.
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He considered himself an aestheticist, often choosing to focus on the beauty of nature rather than its practical aspects.
Synonyms
A person who loves art and beauty
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
aestheticist = aesthetic (transparent) = aesthetic + ist
Standard agentive formation: 'aesthetic' + '-ist' yields 'a person advocating or practicing the aesthetic philosophy', which is directly inferable from the base.
Etymology
Aestheticist comes from the Greek root aesthetic, which means 'to feel' or 'to sense'. That's why an aestheticist is someone who believes art and beauty are important for their own sake, not only for practical use.