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aesthetic + -ism
Noun
aestheticism (countable and uncountable, plural aestheticisms)
- 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 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 aestheticism, and long remained there; the world, or outwardness, was what had hurt him, was the enemy.
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doctrine which holds aesthetics as the highest ideal
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