Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

concretism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: con-cretism
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An abstractionist painting movement that evolved in the 1930s.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Reification; the fallacy of treating an abstraction as a real entity.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From concrete + -ism.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: concrete

Usage

Inflected Forms

concretisms (plural)

Synonyms

concrete art concrete representation

Questions

What does concretism mean?: An abstractionist painting movement that evolved in the 1930s.
Where does concretism come from?: From concrete + -ism.

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