aestheticism

See also: æstheticism

English

Alternative forms

• æstheticism
• estheticism

Etymology

From aesthetic +‎ -ism.

Noun

aestheticism (countable and uncountable, plural aestheticisms)

1. A doctrine which holds aesthetics or beauty as the highest ideal or most basic standard.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, chapter XIII, in Age of Consent, London: T[homas] Werner Laurie […], →OCLC, page 133:

     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.

   • 1972, Triumph - Volume 7, page 33:

     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.

Related terms

• aesthete
• aesthetics

Translations

doctrine which holds aesthetics as the highest ideal

• Catalan: esteticisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 唯美主義 / 唯美主义 (zh) (wéiměizhǔyì)

• Danish: æsteticisme
• French: esthétisme (fr) m
• German: Ästhetizismus m
• Greek: αισθητισμός (el) m (aisthitismós)
• Indonesian: estetisisme
• Kazakh: эстетизм (éstetizm)
• Kyrgyz: эстетизм (estetizm)
• Malay: estetisisme
• Polish: estetyzm m
• Portuguese: estetismo m, esteticismo (pt) m
• Russian: эстети́зм (ru) m (estetízm)
• Sicilian: esticìsimu m
• Spanish: esteticismo m

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