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Pulchritude vs Aesthete - What's the difference?

pulchritude | aesthete |

As nouns the difference between pulchritude and aesthete

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

pulchritude

English

Noun

(-)
  • Physical beauty.
  • * 1978 , Charles D. Benson and William Barnaby Faherty, Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations , NASA Special Publication 4204, 1978, ch. 4 [http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4204/ch4-8.html]
    • One participant recalls arriving at his Cocoa Beach motel on a Saturday evening with the Miss Universe contest on TV. To his wife's amazement, his interest in feminine pulchritude gave way to fatigue, and he was asleep before the final selection.
  • * 1979 , , 00:18:20
    • Do you know why a woman of such pulchritude is married to me? 'Cause I make a comfortable living.

    Synonyms

    * comeliness

    Derived terms

    * pulchritudinous

    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