Definitions for aestheticism

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aestheticism aes·thet·i·cism

Spelling: [es-thet-uh-siz-uh m or, esp. British, ees-]

IPA: /ɛsˈθɛt əˌsɪz əm or, esp. British, is-/

Aestheticism is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 837 anagrams from letters in aestheticism (aceehiimsstt).

Definitions for aestheticism

noun

1. the acceptance of artistic beauty and taste as a fundamental standard, ethical and other standards being secondary.
2. an exaggerated devotion to art, music, or poetry, with indifference to practical matters.
3. a late Victorian movement in British and American art characterized by a dedicatedly eclectic search for beauty and by an interest in old English, Japanese, and classical art.

Origin of aestheticism

First recorded in 1855-60; aesthetic + -ism

Examples for aestheticism

It will be interesting to note in what ritualistic harbor the aestheticism of our day will finally moor.

Call it aestheticism, squeamishness, namby-pamby sentimentalism, what you will it is stronger than oneself!

It is a custom that is instinctively condemned by everyone from the standpoint of both hygiene and aestheticism.

The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism—Teaism.

aestheticism and carnality are by no means as dissociate as the æsthete would have us believe.

aestheticism (for so they named the movement,) did indeed permeate, in a manner, all classes.

The prevalence of such a sensualism or aestheticism would alone suffice to explain the impotence of the arts.

We may divide human artifacts into two classes, namely, those of utility and those of aestheticism.