objective correlative
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.16 in modern English
39
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
7
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A physical representation or manifestation of an abstract concept; especially, a symbolic artistic representation of a particular emotion, feeling etc.
Example Sentences
- "Neil Young invented strung-out country-rock in 1975 with his album Tonight's the Night, its bittersweet desolation finding an objective correlative in the setting of America's south-western desert states."
- "Eleven years later, in 586, after another senseless revolt, Jerusalem was destroyed and Yahweh's temple, his objective correlative on earth, was burned to the ground."