neoimpressionism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A genre of French impressionist art that used pointillism to achieve a more formal composition.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The method, variously called pointillism, divisionism (separated colours) or neoimpressionism, is especially effective in the half-dozen monumental paintings Seurat considered his toiles de lutte (battle-canvases). […] Neoimpressionism quickly divided viewers: did it herald an abstract future or was it a dry, formulaic dead end?"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *nu Proto-Indo-European *néwos Proto-Hellenic *néwos Ancient Greek νέος (néos) Ancient Greek νεο- (neo-)der. English neo- Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *per-? Proto-Indo-European *pres-der. Proto-Italic *pres- Latin premō Latin imprimō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin impressiōnembor. French impression Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)bor. Latin -ismusbor. French -isme French impressionnisme English impressionism English neoimpressionism From neo- + impressionism.