collagic
/kəˈlæd͡ʒɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Like a collage, made from the assemblage of diverse things.
Example Sentences
- "Each section of Markopoulos' GALAXIE is an unqualified gem, but put them all together and the film becomes a collagic bore […] ."
- "His film Invocation of my Demon Brother[…] has an open, collagic form which has as its center a magical ritual[…] interrupted by discontinuous images which suggest the forces of darkness."
- "Vulgar Latin : a collagic concept designed to cover up the failure of Romance philologists to comprehend the development of the Romance languages."
- "A second postmodernist impulse is found in the collagic, which critics and writers[…] have seen as a means not of imitating reality, but of intervening in it."
- "[Two CD-ROMs] are collagic and marked by the processes of crafting them from video, scans, and manipulated imagery."
- "[…]postmodern collagic texts like Kingston's The Woman Warrior[…]"
Etymology
Apparently a 20th-century neologism, regular derivation from collage + -ic. Earliest confirmed occurrence found in 1971: see citations.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more collagic (comparative)
most collagic (superlative)