耽たん美び主しゅ義ぎ

noun

aestheticism

A literary and artistic movement emphasizing beauty over social or moral themes. Often used in discussions of late 19th-century European art and literature, but also applied to Japanese works influenced by the same ideals.

• 耽たん美び主しゅ義ぎは19世せい紀き末まつのヨーロッパで盛さかんになった芸げい術じゅつ運うん動どうだ。

  Aestheticism was an artistic movement that flourished in late 19th-century Europe.

• 彼かれの小しょう説せつには耽たん美び主しゅ義ぎの影えい響きょうが色いろ濃こく見みられる。

  His novels show a strong influence of aestheticism.