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æstheticism

æstheticism is the alternative spelling of aestheticism.

Meaning of aestheticism

Noun

aestheticism (countable and uncountable, plural aestheticisms)

  1. A doctrine which holds aesthetics or beauty as the highest ideal or most basic standard.
    • 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.1938, Norman Lindsay, chapter XIII, in Age of Consent, London: T[homas] Werner Laurie […], →OCLC, page 133

Forms of æstheticism

pluralæstheticisms

Questions about æstheticism

What is æstheticism the alternative spelling of?
Æstheticism is the alternative spelling of aestheticism.

Words near æstheticism in the dictionary

  1. æstheticians
  2. æstheticise
  3. æstheticised
  4. æstheticises
  5. æstheticising
  6. æstheticism
  7. æstheticisms
  8. æstheticist
  9. æstheticists
  10. æstheticization
  11. æstheticize

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