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单词 vorticism
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
vor•ti•cism  (vôrtə siz′əm),USA pronunciation n. (sometimes cap.)
  1. Fine Arta short-lived avant-garde British art movement that was nurtured by Wyndham Lewis, derived from futurism and cubism, and reached its climax in an exhibition in London in 1915, dwindling in influence after World War I.
  • Latin vortic-, stem of vortex vortex + -ism
  • 1910–15
vorti•cist, n., adj. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
vorticism /ˈvɔːtɪˌsɪzəm/ n
  1. an art movement in England initiated in 1913 by Wyndham Lewis combining the techniques of cubism with the concern for the problems of the machine age evinced in futurism
Etymology: 20th Century: referring to the "vortices" of modern life on which the movement was based

ˈvorticist n
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