Monday, June 27, 2011

Today's Post

Another MAT term:

Aesthete  (Es-theet)


An aesthete is one whose pursuit of, sensitivity toward, and admiration of beauty is regarded as excessive.


Oscar Wilde, an aesthete, adopted the slogan, "art for art's sake."


(Sources: Master the Miller Analogies Test, Arco, 2006; http://www.milleranalogies.com/; http://www.thefreedictionary.com/aesthete; http://www.cmgww.com/historic/wilde/)


Compiled by Otto and Patricia Ladensack

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