Usually means: Artistic literature focused on aesthetics.
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▸ noun:  The writing of belles-lettres.

Similar:
belles-lettres, literature, literaturology, beaux-arts, philography, lit., librettistics, biblicism, epistolography, arts and letters, more...

Opposite:
philistinism, populism

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Similar:
belles-lettres, literature, literaturology, beaux-arts, philography, lit., librettistics, biblicism, epistolography, arts and letters, more...

Opposite:
philistinism, populism



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