A person who believes in or practices aestheticism; someone devoted to art, beauty, and aesthetic experience above other values.
From aestheticism + -ist (one who practices or believes in). Refers to adherents of the Aesthetic Movement.
Oscar Wilde famously carried a sunflower and wore green velvet to shock Victorian society—aestheticists were radical because they said 'beauty matters more than being practical,' which scandalized a culture obsessed with hard work and moral duty.
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