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estheticism

estheticism 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 estheticism

pluralestheticisms
alternative formaestheticism
alternative formæstheticism

Origin of estheticism

From esthetic + -ism.

Questions about estheticism

What is estheticism the alternative spelling of?
Estheticism is the alternative spelling of aestheticism.

Words near estheticism in the dictionary

  1. estheticians
  2. estheticise
  3. estheticised
  4. estheticises
  5. estheticising
  6. estheticism
  7. estheticisms
  8. estheticization
  9. estheticizations
  10. estheticize
  11. estheticized

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