Symbolist

Synonyms for "symbolist" (25 found)

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Closest matches (5)

Noun(2 words)
advocate of symbolismallegorical

Strong matches (8)

Related words (12)

Noun(7 words)
symbolicsymbolic interpretersymbolisersymbolist artistsymbolist stylesymbolist writersymbolizer

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analystart movement participantart movement termartistcreative personcriticfigurative adjectiveinterpretertranslatorwriter

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art criticliterary criticsymbolist dramasymbolist dramatistsymbolist paintersymbolist paintingsymbolist poemsymbolist poetsymbolist poetrysymbolist theatre

Collocations

7 entries
symbolist aestheticssymbolist authorsymbolist movementsymbolist paintersymbolist paintingsymbolist poetrysymbolist verse

Inflections

3 entries
more symbolistmost symbolistsymbolists

Derivations

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Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

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Both Decadence and Aestheticism, as intellectual movements, have fallen into the nadir of oblivion, and the dust lies heavy upon them, but they left a little leaven to lighten the heavy inertness of correct and academic literature; and now Symbolism, a greater movement than either, is in the ascendant, giving another turn to the wheel, and to all who think deeply about such matters it seems as though Symbolist literature is to be the literature of the future.

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The general picture that has emerged is one of Cubism bubbling up out of a thick Parisian stew of symbolist poetry, Cézanne, cafe society, African masks, absinthe and a fascination with all things mechanical and modern, mostly airplanes and automatons.

Source: wiktionary

The symbolists had not all an explicit philosophy; but they were all aware of potencies in the world or in themselves which language cannot articulately express, and which are yet more vitally real than the 'facts' which we can grasp and handle, and the 'respectable' people whom we can measure and reckon with.

Source: wiktionary

At the helm of the symbolists was [Frank] Rosenblatt’s nemesis, MIT professor Marvin Minsky.

Source: wiktionary

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