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aestheticism en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• ăs′-thĕ′-tĭ-sĭ′-zəm
• /ˌæsˈθɛ.tɪˌsɪ.zəm/ (US)

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin aesthēticusder. German Ästhetikder. New Latin aesthēticusbor. French esthétiqueder. English aesthetic Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English aestheticism From aesthetic + -ism.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A doctrine which holds aesthetics or beauty as the highest ideal or most basic standard.
   • Born the most sensitive of children into an unhappy family that misreared and misschooled him, Rilke recoiled into introspectiveness and dilletante^([sic]) aestheticism, and long remained there; the world, or outwardness, was what had hurt him, was the enemy. 1972, Triumph - Volume 7, page 33:
   • He went over his canvases with disgust and anger, unable to see virtue in any one of them. Even his sacred Oyster Girl went back on him. The creature of a vitiated æstheticism, he could only suppose that conceit had played an abominable trick on his eyesight. 1938, Norman Lindsay, chapter XIII, in Age of Consent, London: T[homas] Werner Laurie […], →OCLC, page 133:

Forms

Relateds

aesthete · aesthetics

Translations (18)

id estetisisme (doctrine which holds aesthetics as the highest ideal) · fr esthétisme (doctrine which holds aesthetics as the highest ideal) · scn esticìsimu (doctrine which holds aesthetics as the highest ideal) · cmn 唯美主義 /唯美主义 (doctrine which holds aesthetics as the highest ideal) · pl estetyzm (doctrine which holds aesthetics as the highest ideal) · da æsteticisme (doctrine which holds aesthetics as the highest ideal) · gl esteticismo (doctrine which holds aesthetics as the highest ideal) · ms estetisisme (doctrine which holds aesthetics as the highest ideal) · de Ästhetizismus (doctrine which holds aesthetics as the highest ideal) · ca esteticisme (doctrine which holds aesthetics as the highest ideal) · ky эстетизм (doctrine which holds aesthetics as the highest ideal) · kk эстетизм (doctrine which holds aesthetics as the highest ideal) · pt estetismo (doctrine which holds aesthetics as the highest ideal) · el αισθητισμός (doctrine which holds aesthetics as the highest ideal) · nl estheticisme (doctrine which holds aesthetics as the highest ideal) · pt esteticismo (doctrine which holds aesthetics as the highest ideal) · ru эстети́зм (doctrine which holds aesthetics as the highest ideal) · es esteticismo (doctrine which holds aesthetics as the highest ideal)