1. A person who has or claims to have refined sensitivity to beauty and art; someone who pursues and advocates aesthetic principles.
The aesthete spent hours analyzing the nuances of the Renaissance painting.
O esteta passou horas analisando as nuances da pintura renascentista.
2. A person who is excessively concerned with beauty and artistic matters, sometimes in an affected or pretentious manner.
He was dismissed as a mere aesthete more interested in form than substance.
Ele foi descartado como um mero esteta mais interessado na forma do que no conteúdo.