constructivism

1. 1.

   an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects

   Broaderartistic movement

Other forms of constructivism

plural

constructivisms·

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 constructivism

What does constructivism mean?

constructivism means "an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects".

How many syllables are in constructivism?

constructivism has 4 syllables: con-struc-ti-vism. The stress falls on "struc".

Is constructivism a common word?

constructivism 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.