ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷(ˌ) ̷ ̷ˈtāshən ə lˌizəm, -shnəˌli- noun
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1. also rep·re·sen·ta·tion·ism -shəˌnizəm : the philosophical doctrine asserting that the immediate or direct object of knowledge is an idea in the mind distinct from the external or independent object which is the occasion of perception and holding sometimes that the idea is a mental counterpart or true copy of the external object and sometimes that the idea is a modification of the consciousness determined in part by the nature of the independent object and in part by the nature or limitations of the mind
2. : representative art
unorthodox representationalism in his work — J.J.Sweeney
representationalism is better left to the action film — Delmore Schwartz