marienbadism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A style of film that has an enigmatic narrative structure coupled with a dreamlike uncertainty over what is real and what is imagined.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Nathan A. Scott, Jr., deals more directly with contemporary McLuhanism and Marienbadism."
- "Nevertheless, anyone with memories of durable big stars and well-made hokum is likely to be sorry if one evening there is nothing available in or out of the house except TV soap opera, Ben Hur, and Marienbadism."
- "What with Alphonse's lies and Bernard's fantasies, one must assume the relative candor of Hélène and Françoise if Muriel is not to succumb to Marienbadism."
- "The American critic Pauline Kael feels that as a result of what she calls 'creeping Marienbadism', movies are going to pieces and she chides the art-house audience for accepting 'lack of clarity as complexity; clumsiness and confusion as style' ."
Etymology
From Marienbad + -ism, from the French New Wave film L'Année dernière à Marienbad (Last year at Marienbad).
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: Marienbad