acmeism

[ ak-mee-iz-uhm ]

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of acmeism¹

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

Example Sentences

When asked to define Acmeism, the school of formal, rigorously clear poets to which he belonged, he replied that it was "a nostalgia for world culture."

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