pointillism

1. 1.

   a school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers late in 19th century France

   Broaderschoolartistic movement
2. 2.

   a genre of painting characterized by the application of paint in dots and small strokes; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers in late 19th century France

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Other forms of pointillism

plural

pointillisms·

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 pointillism

What does pointillism mean?

pointillism means "a school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers late in 19th century France". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pointillism?

pointillism has 3 syllables: poin-til-lism. The stress falls on "poin".

Is pointillism a common word?

pointillism 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.