| English Dictionary |
SYNTHETISM
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
Dictionary entry overview: What does synthetism mean?
• SYNTHETISM (noun)
The noun SYNTHETISM has 1 sense:
1. a genre of French painting characterized by bright flat shapes and symbolic treatments of abstract ideas
Familiarity information: SYNTHETISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A genre of French painting characterized by bright flat shapes and symbolic treatments of abstract ideas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("synthetism" is a kind of...):
genre (a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique)
| Learn English with... Proverbs |
"Bread is the staff of life." (English proverb)
"There is no household without domestic fight" (Breton proverb)
"The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss." (Arabic proverb)
"He who digs a pit for another falls into it himself." (Czech proverb)
"There is no household without domestic fight" (Breton proverb)
"The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss." (Arabic proverb)
"He who digs a pit for another falls into it himself." (Czech proverb)