abstractionism

1. 1.

   an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation

   Synonymsabstract art

   Broadergenre

   Narrowerop art
2. 2.

   a representation having no reference to concrete objects or specific examples

   Synonymsunrealism

   Broaderrepresentation

Other forms of abstractionism

plural

abstractionisms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about abstractionism

What does abstractionism mean?

abstractionism means "an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in abstractionism?

abstractionism has 5 syllables: ab-strac-ti-o-nism. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for abstractionism?

Close synonyms include abstract art, unrealism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is abstractionism a common word?

abstractionism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.