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precisionism

precisionism noun: a modernist art movement that emerged in the United States after World War I, reducing subjects to their essential geometric shapes and eliminating detail.

Noun

precisionism (uncountable)

  1. A modernist art movement that emerged in the United States after World War I, reducing subjects to their essential geometric shapes and eliminating detail.

Origin of precisionism

From precision + -ism.

Questions about precisionism

What does precisionism mean?
Precisionism means a modernist art movement that emerged in the United States after World War I, reducing subjects to their essential geometric shapes and eliminating detail.
What part of speech is precisionism?
Precisionism is a noun.

Words near precisionism in the dictionary

  1. precisionally
  2. precisionise
  3. precisionised
  4. precisionises
  5. precisionising
  6. precisionism
  7. precisionist
  8. precisionists
  9. precisionize
  10. precisionized
  11. precisionizes

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