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memorialistic

memorialistic adjective: characteristic of or involving a memorial.

Adjective

memorialistic (comparative more memorialistic, superlative most memorialistic)

  1. Characteristic of or involving a memorial.
    • It is worth drawing attention here to the rich memorialistic literature from which I limit myself to citing the exceptional epic of prison life published by Ion Ioanid under the title Închisoarea noastră cea de toate zilele (Our daily prison).2001, Lucian Boia, translated by James Christian Brown, History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness, Central European University Press, →ISBN, page 256
    • […]; the other being the years that followed the economic crises of 2001, when the open prison began to be linked to a memorialistic process centered around the appropriation and transformation of former sites of detention into spaces for memory.2012, Susana Draper, Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Postdictatorship Latin America, University of Pittsburgh Press, page 4

Forms of memorialistic

comparativemore memorialistic
superlativemost memorialistic

Questions about memorialistic

What does memorialistic mean?
Memorialistic means characteristic of or involving a memorial.
What part of speech is memorialistic?
Memorialistic is an adjective.

Words near memorialistic in the dictionary

  1. memorialiser
  2. memorialisers
  3. memorialises
  4. memorialising
  5. memorialist
  6. memorialistic
  7. memorialists
  8. memorializable
  9. memorialization
  10. memorializations
  11. memorialize

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