aesthete
/ˈiːsθiːt
/ /ˈɛsθiːt/(US also esthete)
noun
A person who is appreciative of and sensitive to art and beauty.He remains an aesthete, but his appreciation of culture is now spiritually empty....
- His pose was that of the dandy and the aesthete, emphatically not that of the angry young man.
- He was a cultured aesthete who loved music, architecture, and philosophy, even corresponding at length with Voltaire.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Greek aisthētēs 'a person who perceives', or from aesthetic, on the pattern of the pair athlete, athletic.