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Lyricism
noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Great enthusiasm. countable, uncountable
- 2 unrestrained and exaggerated enthusiasm wordnet
- 3 The emotional style of lyric poetry. countable, uncountable
- 4 the property of being suitable for singing wordnet
- 5 Suitability to be sung or used as lyrics. countable, uncountable
"This is an album whose most memorable songs are definitely its strangest. Most ambitious of all perhaps is Dark Ballet, a long concept-song about Joan of Arc in which the lyricism of the piano lines startles. Madonna herself is heavily Auto-tuned, mumbling stuff about being a witch; she seems to blow on the flames of a pyre."
Etymology
From lyric + -ism.
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