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expressionism
noun
an early 20th-cent. movement in art, literature, and drama, characterized by distortion of reality and the use of symbols, stylization, etc. to give objective expression to inner experience
Related Forms:
- expressionist adjective, noun
- expressionistic adjective
- expressionistically adverb
See expressionism in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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