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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
Orson Welles

Meaning of "aesthete" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD AESTHETE

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PRONUNCIATION OF AESTHETE

aesthete  [ˈiːsθiːt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AESTHETE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Aesthete is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AESTHETE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Aestheticism

Aestheticism is an art movement supporting the emphasis of aesthetic values more than social-political themes for literature, fine art, music and other arts. It was particularly prominent in Europe during the 19th century, but contemporary critics are also associated with the movement, such as Harold Bloom, who has recently argued against projecting social and political ideology onto literary works, which he believes has been a growing problem in humanities departments over the last century. In the 19th century, it was related to other movements such as symbolism or decadence represented in France, or decadentismo represented in Italy, and may be considered the British version of the same style.

Definition of aesthete in the English dictionary

The definition of aesthete in the dictionary is a person who has or who affects a highly developed appreciation of beauty, esp in poetry and the visual arts.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AESTHETE


beat
biːt
complete
kəmˈpliːt
delete
dɪˈliːt
eat
iːt
elite
ɪˈliːt
esthete
ˈiːsθiːt
feat
fiːt
feet
fiːt
heat
hiːt
logothete
ˈlɒɡəʊˌθiːt
meat
miːt
meet
miːt
nomothete
ˈnɒməʊˌθiːt
petite
pəˈtiːt
repeat
rɪˈpiːt
seat
siːt
sheet
ʃiːt
street
striːt
thesmothete
ˈθɛsməˌθiːt
thete
θiːt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AESTHETE

aesculin
Aesir
Aesop
aesthesia
aesthesiogen
aesthesiogenic
aesthetic
aesthetic labour
aesthetical
aesthetically
aesthetician
aestheticise
aestheticism
aestheticist
aestheticize
aesthetics
aestival
aestivate
aestivation
aestivator

WORDS THAT END LIKE AESTHETE

Albacete
athlete
compete
concrete
Crete
discrete
incomplete
jete
kete
machete
mete
obsolete
Papeete
Pete
polychete
replete
rete
secrete
spirochete
tete

Synonyms and antonyms of aesthete in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «aesthete» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AESTHETE

Find out the translation of aesthete to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of aesthete from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «aesthete» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

唯美主义者
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

esteta
570 millions of speakers

English

aesthete
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कलाप्रेमी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الذواقة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

эстет
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

esteta
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কলাবিদ্যবিশারদ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

esthète
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Esthete
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ästhet
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

審美眼のある人
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

미적 감각이있는 사람
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Esthete
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người chuộng my thuật
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அழகியலாளராக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हौशी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

estet
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

esteta
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

esteta
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

естет
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

estet
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εστέτ
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

esteet
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

aesthete
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

aesthete
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of aesthete

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AESTHETE»

The term «aesthete» is quite widely used and occupies the 51.398 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AESTHETE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «aesthete» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «aesthete» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about aesthete

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2 QUOTES WITH «AESTHETE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word aesthete.
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Raymond Loewy
Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.
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Orson Welles
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AESTHETE»

Discover the use of aesthete in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to aesthete and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Memoirs of an Aesthete
In this remarkable book, Harold Acton writes a witty and vivid account of his first thirty-five years of his life from his boyhood among the international colony of dilettanti in Florence before the First World War, to his maturity when he ...
Harold Acton, 2011
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Between amateur and aesthete: the legitimization of ...
Investigates the rise of amateur photographers and the fight to legitimatize photography as an art form in the late nineteenth century, and shows how the era led to changes in the perception of photographic theory and practice.
Paul Spencer Sternberger, 2001
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In Continuity: The Last Essays of Austin Warren
The aesthete is a late-appearing, a decadent type of man — a man who, having the practical basis of life provided, the economic basis, and security, not for the day or the year but for a vague perpetuity, is free to enjoy. The aesthete is one kind ...
Austin Warren, George Andrew Panichas, 1996
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More Memoirs of an Aesthete
Packed with recollections of the famous personalities he knew such as the Sitwells, Norman Douglas, Bernard Berenson, Gertrude Stein and Evelyn Waugh, this book brilliantly evokes a society that now seems remote.
Harold Acton, 2008
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Nice Guys Don't Work in Hollywood: The Adventures of an ...
Included in this volume are Harrington's 1949 "Index of the Films of Joseph von Sternberg," originally published in Sight & Sound, and the short story "The Secrets of the Sea," which became the basis for the screenplay of his haunting debut ...
Curtis Harrington, 2013
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Hebrew Gospel of Matthew
The structure of Either /Or, 1 is only made clear when one sees "the subtle changes that take place in this relationship between the aesthete as subject and the aesthete as object, between the aesthete as observer and recorder and the ...
George Howard, 1995
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Human Embrace: The Love of Philosophy and the Philosophy of ...
The Love of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Love Kierkegaard, Cavell, Nussbaum Ronald L. Hall. rality into the security of the eternal, but fleeting, moment. Or as I might put this, for the aesthete the particular is higher than the universal, but ...
Ronald L. Hall, 2010
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Either/or
At one level, it might seem that the aesthete denies the reality of this transtemporal romantic experience. Certainly, much that he says mocks first love. His review of the Scribe drama, for example, ridicules Emmeline's equivocations over who is ...
Robert L. Perkins, 2007
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Essays on Boredom and Modernity
The aesthete, however, tries to manipulate the experience of past and future by means of selective memory and expectation, and fails to relate the present moment to eternity at all. That renders the present an arbitrary and meaningless series ...
Barbara Dalle Pezze, Carlo Salzani, 2009
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Bernard Shaw and the Aesthetes
179-80) . Nevertheless, Praed is as proper as Shaw's earlier aesthete-artists; Shaw calls him an upholder of "conventionally unconventional" behavior and upbraids the critics who take him for "the sole sensible person on the stage" ( Preface, ...
Elsie Bonita Adams, 1971

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AESTHETE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term aesthete is used in the context of the following news items.
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Required Reading
“He's a hooligan and aesthete,” said Mat Collishaw. “This is not a normal combination of characteristics.” His halting attempts to talk about ... «Hyperallergic, Jul 15»
2
A Personal View of Professor Khan Sarwar Murshid
I have been contemplating about how my father, Professor Khan Sarwar Murshid, became an aesthete. Over the years he came to embody a ... «The Daily Star, Jul 15»
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Opinion: Eulogy for the UFC's Pre-Soccer Aesthetics
It's possible if not probable that some of you think I'm just being an overly mawkish aesthete, but I'm confident that time will vindicate me, and ... «Sherdog.com, Jul 15»
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Review: Bilal Brings Far-Out Viewpoint to This Life and His Show
A breakout talent of the millennial neo-soul boom, he has long been an aesthete-underdog, admired by the right people but always a notch or ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
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'The House Tells the Story' offers a personal tour of 15 presidential …
He writes that the first US president, in addition to his better-known attributes, was also an aesthete who was intensely involved in the design of ... «Christian Science Monitor, Jul 15»
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Bell Shakespeare's Hamlet with Josh McConville will travel to 28 …
... souls can be glorious in their own way; but so can the athletic Hamlet, so can the beautiful speaker, or the aesthete, or the angry young man. «The Australian, Jul 15»
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'Hannibal': TV's Happiest Meal
He styles himself as an aesthete, and he just wants to fix his gourmet cuisine his way — as Jerry Seinfeld might say, "Let the man make his ... «RollingStone.com, Jul 15»
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How Roger Federer made tennis beautiful again
What attracted him wasn't Federer the person but Federer the aesthete. “Roger Federer,” he writes, “made tennis beautiful again.” In perhaps ... «New Statesman, Jul 15»
9
The 2015 Venice Biennale
Since first seeing his feature film Looking for Langston in 1989, I've always thought of Julien as an aesthete, a cinematic sensualist. «The Nation., Jul 15»
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The Importance of Being Earnest, Vaudeville Theatre, review: 'a trial'
With a thrusting bosom that could send an aesthete flying, hawk-like eyes that have their glare concentrated by a bushy eye-browed frown and ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Aesthete [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/aesthete>. May 2024 ».
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