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Reductivism

Definition: Reductivism

Reductivism

Noun

1. An art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Synonyms: Reductivism

Synonyms: minimal art (n), minimalism (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Reductivism

"Reductivism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Reductivism" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1785,106

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Anagrams: Reductivism

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-i-m-r-s-t-u-v"

-2 letters: crudities, diuretics, misdirect, virucides.

-3 letters: crudites, curdiest, curtsied, curviest, diestrum, dimetric, diuretic, meristic, miscited, misdrive, scimiter, trisemic, verdicts, veristic, virucide.

-4 letters: ceriums, credits, crudest, cruised, crusted, curites, cursive, curvets, deistic, diciest, dictier, dictums, dimeric, directs, dirties, ditsier, diverts, dustier, eristic, icterus, metrics, miriest, miscite, miscued, misedit, mistier, murices, mustier, rectums, revisit, revuist, rimiest, sciurid, scrived, stimied, strived, studier, stuiver, suicide, tediums, tidiers, timider, trismic, trivium, uveitic, uveitis, verdict, veridic, victims, viremic, virtues, visited, visiter, vitrics.

-5 letters: cerium, cervid, cesium, ciders, citers, citied, cities, citrus, civets, civies, civism, credit, crimes, crudes, cruets, cruise, cruset, curets, curies, curite, cursed, curved, curves, curvet, cuties, demits, demurs, dermic, dermis, dicers, dicier, dictum, dimers, direct, direst, divers, divert, divest, driest, drives, duster, duties, duvets, edicts, educts, eructs, estrum, evicts, iciest, imides, irides, irised, iterum, medics, medius, merits, metric, miscue, miscut, misted, mister, miters, mitier, mitred, mitres, murids, muscid, musted, muster, rectum, rectus, recuts, remits, rictus, rivets, rudest, rusted, rustic, scried, scrive, smiter, steric, stiver, stride, strive, suited, suiter, surimi, tedium, teiids, tidier, tidies, timers, triced, trices, truced, truces, truism, turves, uremic, uretic, verism, verist, vermis, vertus, victim, virtue, virtus, viscid, vitric.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Reductivism


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 64 75 63 74 69 76 69 73 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    .    -..    ..-    -.-.    -    ..    ...-    ..    ...    --

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01100100 01110101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01110110 01101001 01110011 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#100 &#117 &#99 &#116 &#105 &#118 &#105 &#115 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0064 0075 0063 0074 0069 0076 0069 0073 006D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5271708769867588758579

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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