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say it: ES-theet
aesthete is a noun meaning "one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature". It carries one recorded sense.
one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for aesthete come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.