aesthetic distance
noun
a degree of detachment from or nonidentification with the characters or circumstances of a work of art, permitting the formation of judgments based on aesthetic rather than extra-aesthetic criteria.
Origin of aesthetic distance
First recorded in 1935–40
Words nearby aesthetic distance
aesthesiometer,
aesthesiometry,
aesthesiophysiology,
aesthete,
aesthetic,
aesthetic distance,
aesthetic labour,
aesthetical,
aesthetically,
aesthetician,
aestheticism