Pointillistic

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a style marked by using many small, distinct points of color to form an image.

    "a pointillistic work of art"

  2. 2
    Having the minimalistic, analytical character associated with pointillism. broadly

    "Their songs are mercurial, exhilarating structures with angular, leaping vocal lines from David Longstreth, cooing female vocal harmonies and pointillistic guitar patterns that do with Congolese soukous what Steve Reich did with Ghanian drumming: analyze, formalize and layer on new, dizzying convolutions."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to pointillism wordnet

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"Their songs are mercurial, exhilarating structures with angular, leaping vocal lines from David Longstreth, cooing female vocal harmonies and pointillistic guitar patterns that do with Congolese soukous what Steve Reich did with Ghanian drumming: analyze, formalize and layer on new, dizzying convolutions."

Etymology

From pointillist + -ic, from Pointillism.

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