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esthete

[ es-theet ]

noun



esthete

/ ɛsˈθɛtɪk; ˌiːsθɪˈtɪʃən; ˈiːsθiːt /

noun

  1. a US spelling of aesthete
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • esˈthetically, adverb
  • esthetic, adjective
  • esˈthetiˌcism, noun
  • esˈthetics, noun
  • esthetician, noun
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Other Words From

  • hyper·esthete noun
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Example Sentences

Initially known simply as an esthete, Wilde hadn’t published much beyond some poems when he embarked on a lecture tour of the United States.

But she was not there to be entertained with the vacillations of a minor Victorian esthete.

Oscar Wilde, who wore his hair long like the esthete he was, was obliged to undergo the indignity of having it cut close, and wearing the sack-cloth suit bearing the broad-arrow mark of the convict.

The esthete or the connoisseur obtains from these agreeable sensations a pleasure unknown to the animals, and one that is not from its nature refractory to reason nor seductive to carnal excess.

I would be very pleased to make myself historian for these fine artists, these esthetes of muscular melody.

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