Aestheticism

Word AESTHETICISM
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Hyphenation æs thet i cism
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Definitions and meanings of "Aestheticism"

What do we mean by aestheticism?

An artistic and intellectual movement originating in Britain in the late 19th century and characterized by the doctrine that beauty is the basic principle from which all other principles, especially moral ones, are derived. noun

Devotion to and pursuit of the beautiful; sensitivity to artistic beauty and refined taste. noun

The doctrine of æsthetics; æsthetic principles; devotion to the beautiful in nature and art. noun

A doctrine which holds aesthetics or beauty as the highest ideal or most basic standard. noun

A doctrine which holds aesthetics or beauty as the highest ideal or most basic standard.

Aesthetic, very - and I mean very - aesthetic Urban Dictionary

Argues that all races share a structurally (divergently) aesthetic future in contrast to a material past. Stipulates universal racial complexion as Afro-Semitic (medium-tan); organizational linguistic dichotomy as Semitic (Eurasian) and Mediterranean (Asian-Aryan); and cultural hegemony as East Asian. The antithesis to historical materialism. Urban Dictionary

When something is unbelievably aesthetic Urban Dictionary

The approach to art exemplified by the Aesthetic Movement Urban Dictionary

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The word "aestheticism" in example sentences

The combination Nietzsche-Wilde-Mallarmé, incongruous as it is, recurs frequently in English aestheticism and it is amusing and symptomatic to find it back in the early Gide, Mr. Scott, however, was clearly not amused. ❋ Scott, Michael P. (1965)

From a late lecture by the 20th-century theologian Paul Tillich: When I came to this country and first used the word aestheticism in a lecture, a colleague of mine at Columbia University told me not to use that word in describing Americans. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2009)

In Germany, whenever there is a debate about the great Catholic liturgical tradition, it only needs someone to utter the accusation of 'aestheticism', and it is all over. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I would also agree that it isn't the case "that reading a novel on its own terms should always be the end point of criticism," although I do maintain -- this is really what my allegiance to "aestheticism" finally amounts to -- it is a indispensable and necessary beginning point. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Nothing more distant from the banal misreading of the aesthetic as an apolitical "aestheticism" can be imagined than the arguments to be found in these essays. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Eucken has turned with equal severity against the aestheticism which is preached so loudly in our days and which «infects only reflective and pleasure-loving hedonists». ❋ Unknown (1908)

He never threw off from himself that disproportionate accumulation of aestheticism which is the burden of the amateur. ❋ Unknown (1905)

Here is much aestheticism and art nouveau, especially designs lifted directly from Alphonse Mucha and freely adapted from Aubrey Beardsley. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Since the beauty of the liturgy "is not mere aestheticism, but the concrete way in which the truth of God's love in Christ encounters us, attracts us and delights us" (Sacramentum Caritatis n. 35), it is important that the Eucharistic celebration manifests, communicates through the sacramental signs, the divine life and reveals to men and women of this city the true face of the Church. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I yearn to live the simpler, quieter life of expat aestheticism. ❋ Julie Gray (2011)

The wealthy Morris fed Burne-Jones's appetite for aestheticism: They shared an interest in Romanticism, illuminated manuscripts, medieval church interiors and Chaucer. ❋ Henrik Bering (2012)

But even more explicit in advocating principles of slow media is Monocle, a luxuriously bound and produced monthly by Tyler Brûlé, a journalist turned creative guru and, crossing Jane Jacobs with John Ruskin, an apostle of a 21st-century, globally aware aestheticism in everything from a cup of espresso to urban planning and airline uniforms. ❋ Trevor Butterworth (2009)

Such attention is missing in Tapa, and it's possible he is simply not interested in a familiar form of aestheticism. ❋ Amitava Kumar (2011)

[Abby]: Your Home Screen is very [aesthetic]! [Andy]: it’s called aestheticism. ❋ Baddie With Cocomelon Drip (2021)

[Divergent aestheticism] [argues] that the near future is anime-centric ([hyperreal]). ❋ Sandrashine (2018)

[Look at] the [aestheticalness] of [my room] ❋ Imsocool_1 (2023)

[Soviet] aestheticism is [composed] of pride, [violence] and order ❋ Erudite Fuck (2020)

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