CUBISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cubism mean? 

• CUBISM (noun)
  The noun CUBISM has 1 sense:

1. an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes

  Familiarity information: CUBISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUBISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("cubism" is a kind of...):

art movement; artistic movement (a group of artists who agree on general principles)

Meronyms (members of "cubism"):

cubist (an artist who adheres to the principles of cubism)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cubism"):

analytical cubism (the early phase of cubism)

synthetic cubism (the late phase of cubism)

Derivation:

cubist (an artist who adheres to the principles of cubism)

cubistic (relating to or characteristic of cubism)