primitivism
noun
a recurrent theory or belief, as in philosophy or art, that the qualities of primitive or chronologically early cultures are superior to those of contemporary civilization.
primitivistic
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a word derived from
primitivism.
Example Sentences
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Stravinsky, whom Scriabin felt was little more than excellently warmed-over Rimsky-Korsakov, turned to rhythm in his “The Rite of Spring” as the device for unleashing our underlying primitivistic impulses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2020
There are these artists now doing this neo-ancient, primitivistic work with the figure, like Thomas Houseago or Huma Bhabha, that Rachel was doing a long time ago.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2011
The new education is consistently primitivistic in the latitude which it allows to whim and in its indulgence of indolence.
From Preaching and Paganism by Albert Parker Fitch
