Definitions for aesthete

aesthete aes·thete

Spelling: [es-theet or, esp. British, ees-]
IPA: /ˈɛs θit or, esp. British, ˈis-/

Aesthete is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 137 anagrams from letters in aesthete (aeeehstt).

Definitions for aesthete

noun

  1. a person who has or professes to have refined sensitivity toward the beauties of art or nature.
  2. a person who affects great love of art, music, poetry, etc., and indifference to practical matters.

Origin of aesthete

1880-85; Greek aisthētḗs one who perceives, equivalent to aisthē- (variant stem of aisthánesthai to perceive) + -tēs noun suffix denoting agent

Examples for aesthete

And this is the condition of the decadent, of the aesthete, of the free-lover.

He is not really an aesthete at all; he is too Voltairian for that.

As a matter of fact, there was much more of the aesthete in him than of the Nonconformist.

You know what he says—'The aesthete is, after all, only a dallier.

This, for that ruthless egotist, the aesthete, is the substance of all things theatrical.

But it wasn't a scientist's curiosity; it was an aesthete's.

Indeed, if he had agreed with the aesthete, he would possibly not have introduced him.

The trouble was that the fight took on a life of its own, until the warrior in Hilton nearly crushed the aesthete.

The aesthete must not ask me to mingle my tears with his, because these things are merely useful and ugly.

He makes people who I call the aesthete—who have a very specific aesthetic point of view.

Word Value for aesthete
Scrable

11

Words with friends

10

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