aestheticism. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

aestheticism

SYLLABICATION:	aes·thet·i·cism
PRONUNCIATION:	s-tht-szm
VARIANT FORMS:	or es·thet·i·cism
NOUN:	1. Devotion to and pursuit of the beautiful; sensitivity to artistic beauty and refined taste. 2. The doctrine that beauty is the basic principle from which all other principles, especially moral ones, are derived.


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