Definition of aestheticism

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aes·thet·i·cism or es·thet·i·cism

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Devotion to and pursuit of the beautiful; sensitivity to artistic beauty and refined taste.
The doctrine that beauty is the basic principle from which all other principles, especially moral ones, are derived.

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