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Artist vs Aesthete - What's the difference?

artist | aesthete |

As nouns the difference between artist and aesthete

is that artist is a person who creates art while aesthete is someone who cultivates an unusually high sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature.

As an adjective artist

is artistic.

artist

English

Noun

  • A person who creates art.
  • A person who creates art as an occupation.
  • A person who is skilled at some activity.

    • Derived terms

    * artistdom * artistic * artistically * artistry * con artist * escape artist * pickup artist * piss-artist * quick-change artist

    See also

    * animator * artisan * drawer * sculptor

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Artistic.
  • *, vol.1, ch.24:
    • Nature, to shew that nothing is savage in whatsoever she produceth, causeth oftentimes, even in rudest and most unarted nations, productions of spirits to arise, that confront and wrestle with the most artist productions.

    Anagrams

    * * * English words suffixed with -ist ----

    aesthete

    English

    (wikipedia aesthete)

    Alternative forms

    * esthete * (chiefly UK)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who cultivates an unusually high sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature.

    • Derived terms

    * anaesthete * synaesthete

    Related terms

    * aesthetic