Word.ws English Dictionary

melodicism

melodicism noun: a focus on the development of melody.

Noun

melodicism (uncountable)

  1. A focus on the development of melody
    • No sense of aloofness or distance diluted his warm melodicism.2000, Ted Gioia, “Cool Jazz and West Coast Jazz”, in Bill Kirchner, editor, Oxford Companion to Jazz, →ISBN, page 340

Origin of melodicism

From melodic + -ism.

Questions about melodicism

What does melodicism mean?
Melodicism means a focus on the development of melody.
What part of speech is melodicism?
Melodicism is a noun.

Words near melodicism in the dictionary

  1. melodic minor scale
  2. melodic minor scales
  3. melodica
  4. melodically
  5. melodicas
  6. melodicism
  7. melodicist
  8. melodicists
  9. melodicity
  10. melodics
  11. Melodie

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: melodicism (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “melodicism.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/melodicism. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.