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façadism

façadism is the alternative form of facadism.

Meaning of facadism

Noun

facadism (uncountable)

  1. the practice of retaining only the facade of an old building when redeveloping a site.
    • The Construction of new buildings behind historic facades, better know as facade retention or ‘facadism’, is a unique phase in the history of architecture.1991, David Highfield, “Preface”, in The Construction of New Buildings Behind Historic Facades, →ISBN, page ix
  2. a method where the facade is designed and/or constructed independently of the remainder of the rest of the building.

Questions about façadism

What is façadism the alternative form of?
Façadism is the alternative form of facadism.

Words near façadism in the dictionary

  1. façadal
  2. façade
  3. façade pattern
  4. façade patterns
  5. façades
  6. façadism
  7. façonné
  8. façonnés
  9. faërie
  10. faëries
  11. faëry

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Adapted from Wiktionary: façadism (page history and authors); facadism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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