ˈpyu̇ˌrizəm noun
( -s )
Etymology: French purisme, from pur pure (from Latin purus ) + -isme -ism
1. : rigid adherence to or insistence on purity or nicety (as in literary style or use of words)
2. : an example of purism ; especially : a word or phrase or a sense of a word or phrase that is used chiefly by purists
readers who find a usage stigmatized as purism have a right to know the stigmatizer's place in the purist scale — H.W.Fowler
3. : a theory and practice in art originated about 1918 by Amédée Ozenfant and Le Corbusier that reduces all natural appearances to a geometric simplicity characteristic of machines