原始主义
yuán​shǐ​zhǔ​yì

primitivism

  • created sense approved 原始主义/原始主義 · yuán​shǐ​zhǔ​yì · primitivism — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    原始主义 / 原始主義

    yuán​shǐ​zhǔ​yì

    primitivism

    An artistic or philosophical movement that values the simplicity and innocence of nature and early human life over modern civilization; often associated with the concept of the "noble savage" in the 18th-century Romantic era.

    原始 (literal) → 原始 · yuán​shǐ · primitive 主义 (literal) → 主义/主義 · zhǔ​yì · -ism; doctrine

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

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