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Definition of Primitivism

1. Noun. A wild or unrefined state.

2. Noun. A genre characteristic of (or imitative of) primitive artists or children.

Definition of Primitivism

1. Noun. The state or quality of being primitive ¹

2. Noun. The opinion that life was better or more moral among primitive peoples, or among children, and has deteriorated with civilization ¹

3. Noun. Any of a group of related styles in the arts, influenced by a belief in the superiority of primitive forms ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Primitivism

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Primitivism

primitive primitive art primitive concept primitive concepts primitive person primitive recursion primitive recursive primitive root primitive streak primitive type

primitive types primitively primitiveness primitivenesses primitives primitivism (current term) primitivisms primitivist primitivistic primitivistically

primitivists primitivities primitivity primity primly primmed primmer primmers primmest primming

Literary usage of Primitivism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. 0,10: The Last Futurist Exhibition of Painting by Linda S. Boersma (1994)
"... ABOUT-FACE: NEO-primitivism AND INTEREST IN A NATIONAL TRADITION 1910 saw the dissolution of the 'Golden Fleece', the exhibiting society that had done ..."

2. Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, and Other Essays by Murray Newton Rothbard (2000)
"16 FREEDOM, INEQUALITY, primitivism, AND THE DIVISION OF LABOR i. If men were like ants, there would be no interest in human freedom. ..."

3. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society by American Philosophical Society (1771)
"It is this conception of craft which is behind much of ancient primitivism, or the belief that a simpler life, one less encumbered with the products of ..."

4. Philosophy, Humanity and Ecology: Vol. 1: Philosophy of Nature edited by J. Odera Oruka (1996)
"primitivism does not deny that there is a substantive concept of truth which ... primitivism does not even deny that there may be a philosophical theory of ..."

5. The Theater of Man: J.L. Vives on Society by J. A. Fernández-Santamaría (1998)
"Under the circumstances, and given Vives' obvious reliance on the tales of classical primitivism, it would appear almost unseemly not to ask: is there any ..."

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