symbolist
pronunciation
How to pronounce symbolist in British English:
UK ['sɪmbəlɪst]
How to pronounce symbolist in American English:
US ['sɪmbəlɪst]
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- Noun:
- a member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols
- someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols
Word Origin
- symbolist (n.)
- 1580s, from symbol + -ist. From 1888 in reference to a literary movement that aimed at representing ideas and emotions by indirect suggestion rather than direct expression, from French symboliste, coined 1885 by poet Paul Verlaine (1844-1896). Rejecting realism and naturalism, they attached symbolic meaning to certain objects, words, etc.
Example
- 1. Do you know who the symbolist or interpreter is ?
- 2. They called him a post impressionist , but to my mind he was more of a symbolist .
- 3. Symbolist textuality , aestheticism , relation to image the flaneur and the city .
- 4. The russian symbolist poets saw the play as a narrative poem mourning the loss of beauty in the world , and thus saw chekhov as a kindred spirit .
- 5. Much affinity exists between the main features of dai wangshu 's poetics and the essential characteristics of the french symbolist poetics .