artistic licence
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.76 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any departure from convention or from factual accuracy taken by an artist to achieve a desired effect.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The script takes a little artistic licence with the facts."
- "Serlio criticises the artistic licence taken by both ancient and contemporary architects, here specifically related to the confusion created by the rich decoration of the arch–in his illustrations, he stripped the monument of most of its beautifully […]"