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Expressionistic

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Adjective

1. expressionist, expressionistic

of or relating to expressionism

Example Sentences:
'expressionist art'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Expressionistic

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noun
(sometimes capital)
an artistic and literary movement originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century, which sought to express emotions rather than to represent external reality: characterized by the use of symbolism and of exaggeration and distortion

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Expressionistic

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noun
[often E-]
an early 20th-cent. movement in art, literature, and drama, characterized by distortion of reality and the use of symbols, stylization, etc. to give objective expression to inner experience

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Expressionistic

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n.
A movement in the arts during the early 1900s that emphasized distortion of external reality in order to express the artist's subjective experience.

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