aestheticism
See also: æstheticism
English
Alternative forms
- æstheticism
- estheticism
Etymology
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[homas] Werner Laurie […], published 1962, OCLC 3195881, 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.
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Related terms
- aesthete
- aesthetics
Translations
doctrine which holds aesthetics as the highest ideal
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Anagrams
- thematicises