aesthete

It telegraphs that Abigail is no barbaric horror fiend but instead a sophisticated aesthete, which makes her both scarier and funnier.

The most numerous of these organs are called aesthetes, small sensory structures found in the outermost layer of the shells of all chitons.

This is not a colony of “tiny houses,” popular among minimalists and aesthetes looking to simplify their lives.

As the plot swings between slightly overbearing teen angst and extrapolations into quantum physics — itself an extended metaphor for the angst-inducing, open-ended possibilities of adolescence — the art in-jokes feel like a concession to adult aesthetes.

Some people see collectors as hard-nosed aesthetes with narrow focus, always perusing catalogs and price lists.