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aestheticism

[es-thet-uh-siz-uhm, ees-] / ɛsˈθɛt əˌsɪz əm, is- /






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Some writers and artists who initially championed boundary-pushing aestheticism later found a spiritual home in the Catholic Church.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 3, 2026

The game the rivals play is beautiful, Cathedral coach Arturo Torres said, because of its aestheticism.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 4, 2022

The centrepiece of this area of academia and aestheticism was a giant hall, the manifestation of Prince Albert's idea of a hub where people could gather and share ideas.

From BBC Mar. 28, 2021

Pater may have been a creature of 19th-century spiritualism and aestheticism, his sensibility as alien to the Renaissance as to our own era of metrics and algorithms.

From Washington Post Oct. 28, 2019

The gilded god of materialism is lavishing its blessings in the realm of science and invention and commercial enterprise, at the expense of aestheticism, till to-day there are thousands of artisans to every artist.

From A Fleece of Gold; Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece by Charles Stewart Given




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