Definition of Aesthete

1. Noun. One who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature.

Exact synonyms: Esthete
Generic synonyms: Cognoscente, Connoisseur

Definition of Aesthete

1. Noun. Someone who cultivates an unusually high sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Aesthete

1. esthete [n -S] - See also: esthete

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aesthete

aesculin
aesculins
aesthenosphere
aesthenospheres
aestheses
aesthesia
aesthesias
aesthesiometer
aesthesiometers
aesthesioneuroblastoma
aesthesioneuroblastomas
aesthesis
aesthesodic
aesthetasc
aesthetascs
aesthete (current term)
aesthetes
aesthetic
aesthetic emotion
aesthetic surgeon
aesthetic surgeons
aesthetic surgeries
aesthetic surgery
aesthetical
aesthetically
aesthetican
aestheticans
aesthetician
aestheticians
aestheticise

Literary usage of Aesthete

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Parody Anthology by Carolyn Wells (1904)
"AFTER WALLER THE aesthete TO THE ROSE GO, flaunting Rose! Tell her that wastes her love on thee, That she nought knows Of the New Cult, Intensity, ..."

2. A Satire Anthology by Carolyn Wells (1905)
"THE aesthete IF you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic line, as a man of culture rare, You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, ..."

3. The Singing of the Future by David Thomas Ffrangcon- Davies (1905)
"Oratorio music more absolute than that of opera, mood, drama, music, ponderous formist, perverted aesthete.—Bach.—Beethoven, founts of music. ..."

4. The Loom of Years by Alfred Noyes (1902)
"AN aesthete I WALK in ancient ways of light And groves of ancient gloom; Before me glimmers, cold and white, The portal of the tomb. ..."

5. A Review of Copepoda Associated with Sea Anemones and Anemone-like Forms by Arthur Grover Humes (1982)
"indicated by dots in Figure Ig), so that formula is 4, 13 + 1 aesthete, 6, 3 -I- 1 aesthete, 4 + 1 aesthete, 2+1 aesthete, and 7 + 1 aesthete. ..."

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