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aestheticism

/es-thet-uh-siz-uhm or, especially British, ees-/US // ɛsˈθɛt əˌsɪz əm or, especially British, is- //UK // (iːsˈθɛtɪˌsɪzəm, ɪs-) //

唯美主义,美学主义,爱美主义,美学

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the acceptance of artistic beauty and taste as a fundamental standard, ethical and other standards being secondary.
    • : an exaggerated devotion to art, music, or poetry, with indifference to practical matters.
    • : a late Victorian movement in British and American art characterized by a dedicatedly eclectic search for beauty and by an interest in old English, Japanese, and classical art.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as intaste
as intastefulness

Examples

  • This is part the judgmental aestheticism of my mother hovering in my consciousness like a vengeful Jewish Yoda.

  • Ruskin calls this a narrow asceticism; perhaps it was rather the result of a very subtle aestheticism.

  • Aestheticism and carnality are by no means as dissociate as the æsthete would have us believe.

  • Call it aestheticism, squeamishness, namby-pamby sentimentalism, what you will it is stronger than oneself!

  • Aestheticism (for so they named the movement,) did indeed permeate, in a manner, all classes.

  • It is a custom that is instinctively condemned by everyone from the standpoint of both hygiene and aestheticism.