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An aesthete is a person who loves beautiful things and thinks hard about them — paintings, music, clothes, rooms, the shape of a cup. It is not a children's word. In the late nineteenth century some writers and artists (Oscar Wilde is the name people remember) made a whole way of living out of this: beauty first. Because of that history, the word can be kind or a little sharp. Said kindly, it means this person has a fine eye. Said with a smile, it can mean this person cares more about how things look than about whether they are useful, or right. It comes from a Greek word for someone who perceives — who really notices.
唯美主義者
組成From Ancient Greek αἰσθητής (aisthētḗs), one who perceives.
同家族的字
- aestheticthe adjective: about beauty and how we take it in
- aestheticsthe study of beauty; same perceiving root
- anaesthetican- without + the same feeling/perceiving root: something that stops you feeling pain
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
aesthetenoun/ˈiːs.θiːt/
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derogatorySomeone who cultivates an unusually high sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature, often in a manner perceived to prioritize beauty over other qualities such as virtue and utility.
- I prefer to think of [literature] as providing a discipline of the sensibility—a special way of apprehending reality. But though I prefer such a conception, it gives rise to all sorts of misunderstandings […] To define literature in this fashion is to risk being called a mere aesthete and even an ecapist who refuses to face the harsh facts of life.
- Because what the aesthete does is to say, “oh, I can transform any unpleasant experience into a moment of beauty.”
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。