Crossword clues for aesthete
aesthete
- Person appreciating the beauty of art
- He appreciates the exquisite tea these provide
- Dilettante man inhabits decaying estate
- Article and note supporting main upset for art lover
- Article in the main elevated tense European art lover?
- Museumgoer, e.g
- Someone who claims sensibility for art and nature
- Someone sensitive to beauty in art
- Self-styled art lover — the tease (anag)
- Product of refinement
- Person seeing beauty in art
- Arty person
- Appreciator of art and beauty
- Taste authority
- Museumgoer, e.g.
- One who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature
- Bernard Berenson was one
- Dilettante
- Art appreciator
- Art lover
- Walter Pater was one
- Lover of beauty
- Beauty is his truth
- One sensitive to art and beauty
- When taking drug the teen oddly becomes person of refinement
- Art lover worried about moving these
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
AEsthete \[AE]s"thete\, n. [Gr. ? one who perceives.] One who makes much or overmuch of [ae]sthetics. [Recent]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
attested from 1878, in vogue 1881, from Greek aisthetes "one who perceives," from stem of aisthanesthai "to perceive, to feel" (see aesthetic).\n\nI want to be an aesthete,\n
And with the aesthetes stand;\n
A sunflower on my forehead,\n
And a lily in my hand.\n
["Puck," Oct. 5, 1881]
\nWiktionary
n. Someone who cultivates an unusually high sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature.
WordNet
n. one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature [syn: esthete]
Wikipedia
Aesthetes are organs in chitons, derived from the mantle of the organism.. They are generally believed to be tiny 'eyes', too small to be seen unaided, embedded in the organism's shell, acting in unison to function as a large, dispersed, compound eye. However, in 2013 studies suggested that aesthetes may serve the function of releasing material to repair the periostracum, a proteinaceous material covering the shell and protecting it from abrasion. This turned out to be false, as it was conclusively demonstrated in November 2015, that aesthetes are image forming eyes. This layer is constantly worn away by waves and debris as a function of their rugged habitat, and must be continuously replaced to protect the shell. Some chitons also have larger lens-bearing eyes.
Usage examples of "aesthete".
Belisarius of certain hyper-cultured Athenian aesthetes whom the general had occasionally encountered.
Christmas and the Aesthetes The world is round, so round that the schools of optimism and pessimism have been arguing from the beginning whether it is the right way up.
Like his master Pater and all the aesthetes, his real quarrel with life is that it is not a dream that can be moulded by the dreamer.
This is surely a very curious example of that extravagant bias against morality which makes so many ultra-modern aesthetes as morbid and fanatical as any Eastern hermit.
This bias against morality among the modern aesthetes is nothing very much paraded.
The modern aesthete, wishing us to believe that he values beauty more than conduct, reads Mallarme, and drinks absinthe in a tavern.
They tended toward an aesthete slimness, with long hair and form-fitting clothing that might have come from the early renaissance, draped with short capelets and cloaks.
At my prep school there were several boys in my class who wanted to be poets, it was that kind of school, others wanted to be fighter pilots, engine drivers and one boy wanted to be a cow, but there was a fair crowd of us nine-year-old aesthetes.
At the start of the voyage, when the ketch had wallowed in a smart chop in the Gulf Stream, Owen had been deathly seasick He rallied once they entered the region of calms, but still preferred to spend most of his time below, playing portentous selections by Mahler and Stravinsky on his implanted micromductor He was cool to the four youngsters and they in turn maintained a diplomatic aloofness from him It was impossible for them to believe that this frail aesthete had once directed a rebel armada in a near-successful strike against the Galactic Milieu.
She was clad in a somewhat strange garb of peacock green and peacock blue satins, that gleamed like blue and green metals, such as delight children and aesthetes, and her heavy, hot brown hair framed one of those magic faces which are dangerous to all men, but especially to boys and to men growing grey.