1. people who have or claim to have a refined appreciation of beauty and art
Usage: plural of aesthete

Examples

• The gallery opening attracted many aesthetes from the local art community.
• These aesthetes spent hours discussing the subtle brushwork in the painting.
• The museum’s new exhibition appealed to both casual visitors and serious aesthetes.
• Victorian aesthetes believed that art should exist for its own sake.
• The coffee shop became a gathering place for young aesthetes and writers.
• Critics accused the aesthetes of being too removed from everyday concerns.