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Definition: Impressionism |
ImpressionismNoun1. A genre of French painting that pictured appearances by strokes of unmixed colors to give the impression of reflected light. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "impressionism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references) |
Etymology: Impressionism \Im*pres"sion*ism\, noun. [French expression impressionnisme.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Impressionism |
| English words defined with "impressionism": Claude Achille Debussy, Claude Debussey ♦ Debussy ♦ impressionist, impressionistic ♦ Postimpressionist. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Impressionism" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (impressionism). |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Impressionism was a 19th century art movement, which began as a private association of Paris-based artists who exhibited publicly in 1874. The movement was named after Claude Monet's Impression, soleil levant (1873); the term being coined by critic Louis Leroy.
See also Impressionist music, American Impressionism
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Impressionism."
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| "Impressionism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.41% of the time. "Impressionism" is used about 63 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.41% | 62 | 42,755 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.59% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 63 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "impressionism": Post-impressionism. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
impressionism | 933 |
post impressionism | 778 |
art impressionism | 743 |
impressionism monet | 100 |
french impressionism | 24 |
impressionism painting | 13 |
history of impressionism | 12 |
abstract impressionism | 10 |
russian impressionism | 9 |
impressionism music | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "impressionism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | impresionizëm. (various references) | |
Arabic | الانطباعية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | импресионизъм. (various references) | |
Czech | impresionismus. (various references) | |
Dutch | impressionisme. (various references) | |
Esperanto | impresionismo. (various references) | |
Farsi | مکتب تجسم , تلوری هیوم درباره ادراک . (various references) | |
French | impressionnisme. (various references) | |
German | Impressionismus. (various references) | |
Greek | ιμπρεσιονισμόσ, εντυπωτικότησ, εντυπωτικότητα, εμπρεσιονισμόσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | impresszionizmus. (various references) | |
Italian | impressionismo. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 印象派美" , 印象主義 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | い"しょうしゅぎ, い"しょうはびじゅつ. (various references) | |
Manx | impressionaghys. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | impressionismay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | impressível. (various references) | |
Romanian | impresionism. (various references) | |
Russian | импрессионизм. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | impresionizam. (various references) | |
Spanish | impresionismo. (various references) | |
Swedish | impressionism. (various references) | |
Turkish | izlenimcilik, empresyonizm. (various references) | |
Ukranian | імпресіонізм. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "impressionism": impressionisms. (additional references) | |
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"Impressionism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: impressioniam, impressionsim. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "impressionism" (pronounced i'mpre"shuni'zum) |
| 10 | -p r e" sh u n i' z u m | expressionism. |
| 7 | -sh u n i' z u m | abolitionism, creationism, isolationism, obstructionism, perfectionism, protectionism. |
| 6 | -u n i' z u m | agrarianism, anachronism, antagonism, authoritarianism, chauvinism, communism, determinism, egalitarianism, expansionism, feminism, hedonism, hooliganism, humanism, illusionism, interventionism, lesbianism, mechanism, microorganism, organism, paganism, parkinsonism, puritanism, republicanism, revisionism, satanism, sectarianism, tokenism, totalitarianism, unionism, vegetarianism. |
| 5 | -n i' z u m | modernism, monism, opportunism. |
| 4 | -i' z u m | absenteeism, absolutism, activism, adventurism, alcoholism, altruism, amateurism, aneurism, animism, aphorism, astigmatism, atavism, atheism, autism, baptism, barbarism, bilingualism, bolshevism, boosterism, botulism, cannibalism, capitalism, catechism, centralism, classicism, collectivism, colonialism, commercialism, conservatism, consumerism, corporatism, counterterrorism, criticism, cronyism, cubism, cynicism, dandyism, defeatism, deism, despotism, diamagnetism, diastrophism, dimorphism, dogmatism, Druidism, dualism, dwarfism, dynamism, egoism, egotism, electromagnetism, elitism, embolism, emotionalism, empiricism, entrepreneurialism, environmentalism, ergotism, eroticism, escapism, ethnocentrism, euphemism, evangelism, extremism, factionalism, fanaticism, fascism, fatalism, favoritism, federalism, ferromagnetism, fetishism, feudalism, formalism, fundamentalism, futurism, geotropism, gnosticism, gradualism, helotism, heroism, hypnotism, idealism, imperialism, incrementalism, individualism, intellectualism, internationalism, Irredentism, isomorphism, jingoism, journalism, leftism, legalism, liberalism, lyricism, magnetism, mannerism, masochism, materialism, mercantilism, mesmerism, metabolism, methodism, militarism, minimalism, monasticism, monetarism, monotheism, moralism, multiculturalism, multilateralism, mutualism, mysticism, narcissism, nationalism, nativism, naturalism, negativism, nepotism, neutralism, nihilism, optimism, ostracism, overoptimism, pacifism, parallelism, parochialism, pastoralism, paternalism, patriotism, pessimism, pharisaism, pietism, plagiarism, pluralism, polymorphism, polytheism, populism, positivism, pragmatism, professionalism, provincialism, racialism, racism, radicalism, realism, recidivism, relativism, rheumatism, romanticism, sadism, secularism, sensationalism, separatism, sexism, skepticism, socialism, statism, stoicism, supernaturalism, surrealism, symbolism, synergism, territorialism, terrorism, theism, tourism, truism, vandalism, vigilantism, voluntarism, volunteerism, voyeurism. |
| 3 | -z u m | bosom, careerism, chasm, cytoplasm, enthusiasm, iconoclasm, ism, microcosm, neoplasm, orgasm, phantasm, prism, sarcasm, schism, spasm. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: misimpression. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-i-i-m-m-n-o-p-r-s-s-s" | |
-2 letters: impressions, misprisions, permissions. | |
-3 letters: immersions, impression, isomerisms, misoneisms, misprision, missioners, permission, persimmons, remissions. | |
-4 letters: emissions, immersion, imprisons, isomerism, minimises, misnomers, misoneism, mispoises, missioner, persimmon, pessimism, prosiness, remission. | |
-5 letters: emission, imposers, imprimis, imprison, inspires, isospins, minimise, miriness, misnomer, mispoise, missions, peonisms, pismires, pissoirs, primines, primness, prissies, promines, promises, prossies, riminess, ripienos, ropiness, rosiness, seismism, semiosis, semipros, simonies. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-i-i-m-m-n-o-p-r-s-s-s" | |
+1 letter: impressionisms, misimpressions. | |
+3 letters: commissionership. | |
+4 letters: commissionerships. | |
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