skeletalism
skeletalism noun: the process of making something skeletal, or reducing it to the barest form.
Noun
skeletalism (uncountable)
- The process of making something skeletal, or reducing it to the barest form.
- We can say, broadly, that minimalism in House and Techno tends to take one of two paths: either skeletalism or massification.2004, Philip Sherburne, Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music
- A linguistic skeletalism noted by Steinhagen: "in the fourteen words of the poem there is not a single local adverb, no prepositions, no colour adjectives and no verbs of perception" (Statischen Gedichte 162).2007, Martin Travers, The poetry of Gottfried Benn: text and selfhood, page 387
- Synonyms:
- skeletalization
Synonyms of skeletalism
Origin of skeletalism
From skeletal + -ism.
Questions about skeletalism
- What does skeletalism mean?
- Skeletalism means the process of making something skeletal, or reducing it to the barest form.
- What part of speech is skeletalism?
- Skeletalism is a noun.
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