cubism

1. 1.

   an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes

   Broaderartistic movement

   Narroweranalytical cubismsynthetic cubism

Other forms of cubism

plural

cubisms·

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 cubism

What does cubism mean?

cubism means "an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes".

How many syllables are in cubism?

cubism has 3 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /ˈkjubɪzəm/.

Is cubism a common word?

cubism is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.