aesthete vs exquisite

aesthete

noun
  • Someone who cultivates an unusually high sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature, often in a manner perceived to prioritize beauty over other qualities such as virtue and utility. 

exquisite

adj
  • Especially fine or pleasing; exceptional. 

  • Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse. 

  • Of special beauty or rare excellence. 

  • Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious. 

  • Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense. 

noun
  • Fop, dandy. 

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