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expressionism
CIDE DICTIONARY
expressionism, n.
- an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized. [WordNet 1.5]
- a genre of German painting that tried to show the subjective responses to scenes rather than the scenes themselves. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
expressionism, n. a style of painting, music, drama, etc., in which an artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world.
Derivative
expressionist n. & adj. expressionistic adj. expressionistically adv.
THESAURUS
expressionism
abstractionism, coloring, deformation, distortion, exaggeration, false coloring, falsification, garbling, hyperbole, inaccuracy, injustice, litotes, miscoloring, misdrawing, mispainting, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, nonrealism, overdrawing, overstatement, perversion, slanting, twisting, understatementFor further exploring for "expressionism" in Webster Dictionary Online