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Humanist vs Aesthete - What's the difference?

humanist | aesthete |

As nouns the difference between humanist and aesthete

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

humanist

Noun

(en noun)
  • a scholar of one of the subjects in the humanities
  • a person who believes in the philosophy of humanism
  • (historical) In the Renaissance, a scholar of Greek and Roman classics
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • relating to humanism or the humanities
  • (typography, of a typeface) Resembling classical handwritten monumental Roman letters rather than the 19th-century grotesque typefaces.
  • Antonyms

    * nonhumanist ----

    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