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Letterism

Letterism is the alternative form of Lettrism.

Meaning of Lettrism

Proper noun

Lettrism

  1. A French avant-garde art and literary movement established in the mid-1940s, owing inspiration to Dada and surrealism.
    • So if lettrism, like Dada, came out of a reaction against a world war, Lettrism did not remain a protest . . . [but became] an exaltation of permanently renewed arts, philosophy, scientific knowledge, technology; […]1983, Tom McDonough, quoting Jean-Paul Curtay, Lettrism: A Neo-Dadaism?, quoted in Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents, MIT Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 442

Questions about Letterism

What is Letterism the alternative form of?
Letterism is the alternative form of Lettrism.

Words near Letterism in the dictionary

  1. letterheading
  2. letterheadings
  3. letterheads
  4. lettering
  5. letterings
  6. Letterism
  7. Letterist
  8. Letterists
  9. Letterkenny
  10. letterleaf
  11. letterless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Letterism (page history and authors); Lettrism (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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