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

n. The doctrine that beauty is the basic principle from which all other principles, especially moral ones, are derived.

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

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

"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."

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