aesthetician
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9.8
- noun
- /ˌiːsθɛˈtɪʃən/
- 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
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I trust my aesthetician's advice on what treatments to use for a radiant complexion.
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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
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A person who thinks art and beauty are important for their own sake
Surface Forms
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.