plasticism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The life of ants is crowded with such socialphychological corrections which regulate the mechanism of instinct by individual “plasticisms,” conduct it into useful paths, and thus bring about an adaptation to external advantages and disadvantages."
- "The new man will be plastic and his essence will be plasticism (rather than humanism) ."
- "A new world plasticism has now begun. The capitalists are deceivers, but the socialists are equally deceivers."
- "The New York plasticism will be also the plasticism of Paris and Petrograd."
- "But it also developed wonderfully in linear delineation, as seen in Seison's “Water-Drawing Ceremony”; in serene spatial constructivism, as seen in Gyoshu's “Tea Ceremony Room”; and in sharp and sensual plasticism as in Yuki's “Moonlit Night.""
- "The only essentiel difference is in the degree of plasticism : the mosaic architecture is rather flat and two-dimensional while the architecture of the miniature introduces chiaroscuro."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Hellenic *plátʰyō Proto-Hellenic *plát͏̌t͏̌ō? Ancient Greek πλάσσω (plássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Hellenic *-tis Ancient Greek -τῐς (-tĭs) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós) Ancient Greek πλᾰστῐκός (plăstĭkós)der. Latin plasticusder. English plastic 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 -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English plasticism From plastic + -ism.