Lyrism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of playing on a lyre or harp. archaic, countable, uncountable

    "But he had found that humdrum world in a terribly dynamic condition, in which even badinage and lyrism had turned explosive;"

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"But he had found that humdrum world in a terribly dynamic condition, in which even badinage and lyrism had turned explosive;"

Etymology

From lyre + -ism.

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