expressionism

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French expressionnisme, equivalent to expression +‎ -ism.

Noun

expressionism (countable and uncountable, plural expressionisms)

1. A movement in the arts in which the artist did not depict objective reality, but rather a subjective expression of their inner experiences
2. A somewhat analogous genre in early 20th century music

Derived terms

• Abstract Expressionism
• abstract expressionism
• neo-expressionism

 

Translations

movement in the arts

• Afrikaans: ekspressionisme
• Arabic: تَعْبِيرِيَّة (taʕbīriyya)
• Armenian: էքսպրեսիոնիզմ (hy) (ēkʻspresionizm)
• Bulgarian: експресиони́зъм m (ekspresionízǎm)
• Catalan: expressionisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 表現主義／表现主义 (zh) (biǎoxiànzhǔyì)

• Dutch: expressionisme (nl) n
• Finnish: ekspressionismi (fi)
• French: expressionnisme (fr) m
• German: Expressionismus (de) m
• Hungarian: expresszionizmus (hu)
• Icelandic: expressjónismi m
• Japanese: 表現主義 (ひょうげんしゅぎ, hyōgenshugi)
• Maori: toi pūkare
• Nepali: अभिव्यक्तिवाद (abhivyaktivād)
• Norman: expressionnisme m
• Polish: ekspresjonizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: expressionismo (pt) m
• Romanian: expresionism (ro) n
• Russian: экспрессиони́зм (ru) m (ekspressionízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: експресионѝзам m

  Roman: ekspresionìzam (sh) m

• Spanish: expresionismo (es) m
• Swedish: expressionism (sv) c
• Ukrainian: експресіоні́зм (uk) m (ekspresionízm)

genre in music

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 表現主義／表现主义 (zh) (biǎoxiànzhǔyì)

• Dutch: expressionisme (nl) n
• Finnish: ekspressionismi (fi)
• German: Expressionismus (de) m
• Japanese: 表現主義音楽 (ひょうげんしゅぎおんがく, hyōgenshugi ongaku)
• Maori: puoro pukare
• Russian: экспрессиони́зм (ru) m (ekspressionízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: експресионѝзам m

  Roman: ekspresionìzam (sh) m

Anagrams

• misexpression