WORD

AESTHETE

Definitions for aesthete

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.

CAME FROM:

  Aesthete finds its roots in the Greek aisthánesthai meaning "to perceive." It entered English in the late 1800s.

Use Aesthete in a sentence

The aesthete obtained box tickets to the opera.

The art museum invited many art lovers to the opening, including a local aesthete.

The job description for curator called for applications who were considered to be an aesthete.

Because he liked to go the theater on the weekends, our teacher called himself an aesthete.

An aesthete frequented the coffee shop near the theater district.