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■ noun an early 20th-century international movement in art, literature, music, and film, repudiating and mocking artistic and social conventions and emphasizing the illogical and absurd.
Derivatives
~ism noun
~ist noun & adjective
~istic adjective
Origin
Fr., lit. 'hobby horse', the title of a review which appeared in Zurich in 1916.