aes
thete
noun
Third Person
aesthetes
1
a person with highly refined artistic tastes who appreciates and actively seeks out experiences of beauty
C2
- As an aesthete, John spent his mornings admiring the paintings in the gallery.
- The character was portrayed as a decadent aesthete, more concerned with beauty than morality.
- At the avant-garde event, aesthetes mingled discussing the installations' formal qualities and imaginative concepts.