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Impressionism Moderate

Origin: Greek suffix -ism

Impressionism has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a school of late 19th century French painters who pictured appearances by strokes of unmixed colors to give the impression of reflected light

2

a movement in art characterized by visible brush strokes, ordinary subject matters, and an emphasis on light and its changing qualities

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
artistic movement
Rhyming Words
ism oism jism wuism agism meism prism yoism quism reism weism tuism ovism idism grism deism seism icism zoism owlism
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