imagism

1. 1.

   a movement by American and English poets early in the 20th century in reaction to Victorian sentimentality; used common speech in free verse with clear concrete imagery

   Broaderartistic movement

Other forms of imagism

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imagisms·

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 imagism

What does imagism mean?

imagism means "a movement by American and English poets early in the 20th century in reaction to Victorian sentimentality; used common speech in free verse with clear concrete imagery".

How many syllables are in imagism?

imagism has 3 syllables: i-ma-gism. The stress falls on "i".

Is imagism a common word?

imagism 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.