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IMAGISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A movement by American and English poets early in the 20th century in reaction to Victorian sentimentality; used common speech in free verse with clear concrete imagery
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("imagism" is a kind of...):
art movement; artistic movement (a group of artists who agree on general principles)