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synchromism

American  
[sing-kruh-miz-uhm] / ˈsɪŋ krəˌmɪz əm /

noun

(sometimes initial capital letter)

  1. a movement of the early 20th century led by American artists and manifested in their experimentation with nonfigurative or entirely abstract paintings containing shapes and volumes of pure color.

Other Word Forms

  • synchromist noun

Etymology

Origin of synchromism

First recorded in 1910–15; syn- + chrom- + -ism

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