aestheten.

Brit.

/ˈiːsθiːt/,

/ˈɛsθiːt/, U.S.

/ˈɛsˌθit/

Forms: 1800s– aesthete, 1800s– esthete.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek αἰσθητής.

Etymology: < ancient Greek αἰσθητής person who perceives < the stem of αἰσθάνεσθαι to perceive (see aesthesis n.) + -τής , suffix forming agent nouns. Compare earlier athlete n. Compare French esthète (1881), German Ästhet (beginning of the 20th cent.), either or both of which may show adaptations or borrowings of the English word.

A person who professes a special or superior appreciation of what is beautiful. Also: (in British universities) a studious person (opposed to hearty) (now rare). Cf. aesthetic adj. 5.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > aesthetics > [noun] > aesthete

aesthetician1829

decorist1839

aestheticist1851

philocalist1858

aesthete1866

1866 A. D. White Addr. Phi Beta Kappa Soc. Yale, 25 July 19 By all that, you perhaps mean the mania of the aesthetes,—boudoir pictures with Meissonier as the chief deity,—an art of mere fashions and whims.

1866 Art-Jrnl. 1 Oct. 308/3 Objects, and great painters' names, being made symbols of good and evil according to the æsthete's peculiar whim and temper.

1881 Daily News 31 Jan. 2/3 The matter-of-fact, slily-humorous, but quiet American colonel, who descends like a bomb-shell in the midst of the æsthetes.

1881 Spectator 2 July 859 The sham æsthete never chooses pretty colours.

1882 W. Hamilton Aesthetic Movement p. vii The Æsthetes are they who pride themselves upon having found out what is the really beautiful in nature and art, their faculties and tastes being educated up to the point necessary for the full appreciation of such qualities.

1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. i. 516 My dear chap, he was absolutely barred. M' tutor used to like him, but..I don't mind telling you, he's really an æsthete.

1932 Proc. Aristotelian Soc. 32 204 A cat does not contemplate anything absolute, and for that reason cannot be a scientist or æsthete.

1969 ‘M. Innes’ Family Affair i. 8 In Bobby's father's time juvenile Oxford had been divided into hearties, aesthetes, and unobtrusive youths commonly known as the sub-men.

1978 J. Senior Death Christian Culture App. 179 The brutal athlete and the foppish aesthete suffer vices opposed to the virtue of Newman's ‘gentleman’.

1992 H. N. Schwarzkopf It doesn't take Hero iv. 44 Sally became an aesthete. She and her friends would read poems by Shelly and Byron late into the night.

2005 New Yorker 17 Jan. 66/1 When I visited the museum..it struck me as one of the few kid-oriented attractions I know that take seriously the notion of children as natural aesthetes.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	aesthete
释义	aestheten. Brit. /ˈiːsθiːt/, /ˈɛsθiːt/, U.S. /ˈɛsˌθit/ Forms: 1800s– aesthete, 1800s– esthete. Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek αἰσθητής. Etymology: < ancient Greek αἰσθητής person who perceives < the stem of αἰσθάνεσθαι to perceive (see aesthesis n.) + -τής , suffix forming agent nouns. Compare earlier athlete n. Compare French esthète (1881), German Ästhet (beginning of the 20th cent.), either or both of which may show adaptations or borrowings of the English word. A person who professes a special or superior appreciation of what is beautiful. Also: (in British universities) a studious person (opposed to hearty) (now rare). Cf. aesthetic adj. 5. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > aesthetics > [noun] > aesthete aesthetician1829 decorist1839 aestheticist1851 philocalist1858 aesthete1866 1866 A. D. White Addr. Phi Beta Kappa Soc. Yale, 25 July 19 By all that, you perhaps mean the mania of the aesthetes,—boudoir pictures with Meissonier as the chief deity,—an art of mere fashions and whims. 1866 Art-Jrnl. 1 Oct. 308/3 Objects, and great painters' names, being made symbols of good and evil according to the æsthete's peculiar whim and temper. 1881 Daily News 31 Jan. 2/3 The matter-of-fact, slily-humorous, but quiet American colonel, who descends like a bomb-shell in the midst of the æsthetes. 1881 Spectator 2 July 859 The sham æsthete never chooses pretty colours. 1882 W. Hamilton Aesthetic Movement p. vii The Æsthetes are they who pride themselves upon having found out what is the really beautiful in nature and art, their faculties and tastes being educated up to the point necessary for the full appreciation of such qualities. 1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. i. 516 My dear chap, he was absolutely barred. M' tutor used to like him, but..I don't mind telling you, he's really an æsthete. 1932 Proc. Aristotelian Soc. 32 204 A cat does not contemplate anything absolute, and for that reason cannot be a scientist or æsthete. 1969 ‘M. Innes’ Family Affair i. 8 In Bobby's father's time juvenile Oxford had been divided into hearties, aesthetes, and unobtrusive youths commonly known as the sub-men. 1978 J. Senior Death Christian Culture App. 179 The brutal athlete and the foppish aesthete suffer vices opposed to the virtue of Newman's ‘gentleman’. 1992 H. N. Schwarzkopf It doesn't take Hero iv. 44 Sally became an aesthete. She and her friends would read poems by Shelly and Byron late into the night. 2005 New Yorker 17 Jan. 66/1 When I visited the museum..it struck me as one of the few kid-oriented attractions I know that take seriously the notion of children as natural aesthetes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1866
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