Imagistic

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to imagism.

    "So much 'performance art' tends to be a kind of closed, aloof, imagistic, private vision."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of imagistic. alt-of, alternative

    "The same will be true of Imagism: a certain degree of variation from a purist definition of the school will take us to a kind of poetry that “Imagism" can no longer describe, although we may still wish to speak of Imagistic tendencies or echoes in the derivative verse."

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"So much 'performance art' tends to be a kind of closed, aloof, imagistic, private vision."

Etymology

From imagist + -ic or image + -istic.

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