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1. A person who is highly sensitive to art and beauty: Casandra was considered an aesthete who kept an art studio and gallery on a fashionable street.
2. Someone who has an acute delight in the beauty of color, line, sound, and texture with a strong distaste for the ugly, shapeless, and discordant: Mona's experience while studying in Paris confirmed her perception of herself as an aesthete as she relished the galleries, the concerts, and the mist on the Seine.
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2. Someone who has an acute delight in the beauty of color, line, sound, and texture with a strong distaste for the ugly, shapeless, and discordant: Mona's experience while studying in Paris confirmed her perception of herself as an aesthete as she relished the galleries, the concerts, and the mist on the Seine.
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aesth-, esth-, aesthe-, esthe-, aesthesio-, esthesio-, aesthesia-, -esthesia, -aesthetic, -esthetic, -aesthetical, -esthetical, -aesthetically, -esthetically
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Someone who appears to be sensitive to beauty and artistic expressions: Mr. Jamison, the town esthete, collects primitive art paintings done by local artists.
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aesth-, esth-, aesthe-, esthe-, aesthesio-, esthesio-, aesthesia-, -esthesia, -aesthetic, -esthetic, -aesthetical, -esthetical, -aesthetically, -esthetically
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