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acmeism

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[ak-mee-iz-uhm] / ˈæk miˌɪz əm /

noun

  1. a school of early 20th-century Russian poetry whose practitioners were strongly opposed to the vagueness of symbolism and strove for absolute clarity of expression through precise, concrete imagery.

Etymology

Origin of acmeism

< Russian akmeízm, equivalent to Greek akmḗ acme + Russian -izm -ism

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