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academicist

academicist adjective: relating to academicism.

Adjective

academicist (comparative more academicist, superlative most academicist)

  1. Relating to academicism
    • In the last 75 years, the two main resident choreographers who have reshaped the Paris Opera Ballet are Serge Lifar and Rudolf Nureyev, intelligent stars whose choreography was generally empty, pompously (Lifar) or forcedly (Nureyev) academicist, astoundingly anti-musical in emphasis, strong on...2007 December 15, Alastair Macaulay, “Class Acts: Paris Ballet Student Exhibitions”, in New York Times

Forms of academicist

comparativemore academicist
superlativemost academicist

Origin of academicist

From academic + -ist.

Questions about academicist

What does academicist mean?
Academicist means relating to academicism.
What part of speech is academicist?
Academicist is an adjective.

Words near academicist in the dictionary

  1. academicised
  2. academicises
  3. academicising
  4. academicism
  5. academicisms
  6. academicist
  7. academicization
  8. academicize
  9. academicized
  10. academicizes
  11. academicizing

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