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单词 horror vacui
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Definition of horror vacui in English:

horror vacui

noun ˌhɒrə ˈvakjuːʌɪˌhôrər ˈvakyəwī
  • A fear or dislike of leaving empty spaces, especially in an artistic composition.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Making a virtue out of necessity, he filled up the wall space, guided by a joyous horror vacui.
    • As if suffering from horror vacui, Grant covers the shaped supports with densely packed words and images, mostly hand-drawn in black and white and loosely relating to the governing silhouette.
    • One of the Seattle-based artists Hodges shows is Alfredo Arreguin, a native of Mexico whose prints and paintings combine a remarkable luminosity with a case of horror vacui.
    • But the horror vacui in Brown's paintings is barely counterbalanced by her grudging inclination to create space within them.
    • Kahn seems at once to have a horror vacui, for which he compensates with microcosmic, allover, one-brushstroke-at-a-time execution, painting every blade of grass, or - almost, it seems every thread in the carpet.
    • And yet, for groups as diverse as the Frankfurt School and the College of Sociology, this flirtation was a progressive form of horror vacui with regard to spaces that fascism had previously monopolized for its own ends.
    • Their allover patterns also owe something to '70s Pattern and Decoration, something to Islamic motifs, to mosaics, something to horror vacui.
    • Some represent a true horror vacui, with heavy antebellum ornamentation of blade, hilt and scabbard.
    • They need to fill the space, it's a kind of horror vacui.
    • After introducing the concept of horror vacui, my third-graders created their own version of this belief.
    • Lush painterly abstraction erupts at the upper right, while the rest of the painting is a horror vacui of scrambled imagery that now, in the wake of the World Trade Center attacks, looks sickeningly realistic.
    • Overarching tree leaves take care of the horror vacui.

Origin

Modern Latin, 'horror of a vacuum'.

 
 

Definition of horror vacui in US English:

horror vacui

nounˌhôrər ˈvakyəwī
  • A fear or dislike of leaving empty spaces, especially in an artistic composition.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Kahn seems at once to have a horror vacui, for which he compensates with microcosmic, allover, one-brushstroke-at-a-time execution, painting every blade of grass, or - almost, it seems every thread in the carpet.
    • And yet, for groups as diverse as the Frankfurt School and the College of Sociology, this flirtation was a progressive form of horror vacui with regard to spaces that fascism had previously monopolized for its own ends.
    • One of the Seattle-based artists Hodges shows is Alfredo Arreguin, a native of Mexico whose prints and paintings combine a remarkable luminosity with a case of horror vacui.
    • Lush painterly abstraction erupts at the upper right, while the rest of the painting is a horror vacui of scrambled imagery that now, in the wake of the World Trade Center attacks, looks sickeningly realistic.
    • Overarching tree leaves take care of the horror vacui.
    • After introducing the concept of horror vacui, my third-graders created their own version of this belief.
    • Making a virtue out of necessity, he filled up the wall space, guided by a joyous horror vacui.
    • As if suffering from horror vacui, Grant covers the shaped supports with densely packed words and images, mostly hand-drawn in black and white and loosely relating to the governing silhouette.
    • Their allover patterns also owe something to '70s Pattern and Decoration, something to Islamic motifs, to mosaics, something to horror vacui.
    • But the horror vacui in Brown's paintings is barely counterbalanced by her grudging inclination to create space within them.
    • Some represent a true horror vacui, with heavy antebellum ornamentation of blade, hilt and scabbard.
    • They need to fill the space, it's a kind of horror vacui.

Origin

Modern Latin, ‘horror of a vacuum’.

 
 
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