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antisymbolism en · NOUN

Etymology

From anti- + symbolism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Opposition to symbolism.
    • These are materialism, antiformalism and antisymbolism, verification through practical results, the partisanship of science, and the need of modifying scientific dogma only by action of the political leadership […] 1963, Carl Joachim Friedrich, Man and his government: an empirical theory of politics, page 632:
    • Thus the extreme antisymbolism, antiornament and anti-Beaux-Arts position of the Bauhaus and other European modems. 1976, AIA Journal, volume 65, page 66:
    • These are only a few of the absurdities of the theory of antisymbolism, but they are sufficient, one should think, to confute it. 1854, Richard Graves, An Analysis of the Revelations, page 229: