<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the acceptance of artistic beauty and taste as a fundamental standard, ethical and other standards being secondary</li><li>an exaggerated devotion to art, music, or poetry, with indifference to practical matters</li><li>a late Victorian movement in British and American art characterized by a dedicatedly eclectic search for beauty and by an interest in old English, Japanese, and classical art</li></ul>