expressionism

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French expressionnisme, equivalent to expression +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: IPA^(key): /ɛksˈpɹɛˈʃən.ɪzm/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

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expressionism

Wikipedia

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expressionism (music)

Wikipedia

expressionism (countable and uncountable, plural expressionisms)

1. A movement in the arts in which the artist did not depict objective reality, but rather a subjective expression of their inner experiences.
2. A somewhat analogous genre in early 20th century music.

Derived terms

• Abstract Expressionism
• abstract expressionism
• neo-expressionism
• Techspressionism

Related terms

• expressionist
• expressionistic

Translations

movement in the arts

Afrikaans: ekspressionisme Albanian: ekspresionizëm (sq) m Arabic: تَعْبِيرِيَّة (taʕbīriyya) Armenian: էքսպրեսիոնիզմ (hy) (ēkʻspresionizm) Bulgarian: експресиони́зъм m (ekspresionízǎm) Catalan: expressionisme m Chinese: Mandarin: 表現主義 / 表现主义 (zh) (biǎoxiànzhǔyì) Dutch: expressionisme (nl) n Finnish: ekspressionismi (fi) French: expressionnisme (fr) m German: Expressionismus (de) m Hungarian: expresszionizmus (hu) Icelandic: expressjónismi m Italian: espressionismo (it) m Japanese: 表現主義 (ja) (ひょうげんしゅぎ, hyōgenshugi) Maori: toi pūkare Nepali: अभिव्यक्तिवाद (abhivyaktivād) Norman: expressionnisme m Polish: ekspresjonizm (pl) m Portuguese: expressionismo (pt) m Romanian: expresionism (ro) n Russian: экспрессиони́зм (ru) m (ekspressionízm) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: експресионѝзам m Roman: ekspresionìzam (sh) m Spanish: expresionismo (es) m Swedish: expressionism (sv) c Ukrainian: експресіоні́зм (uk) m (ekspresionízm)

genre in music

Chinese: Mandarin: 表現主義 / 表现主义 (zh) (biǎoxiànzhǔyì) Dutch: expressionisme (nl) n Finnish: ekspressionismi (fi) German: Expressionismus (de) m Japanese: 表現主義音楽 (ひょうげんしゅぎおんがく, hyōgenshugi ongaku) Maori: puoro pukare Russian: экспрессиони́зм (ru) m (ekspressionízm) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: експресионѝзам m Roman: ekspresionìzam (sh) m

Anagrams

• misexpression