acmeism

[ak-mee-iz-uhm]

ac·me·ism

[ak-mee-iz-uhm]
noun
a school of early 20th-century Russian poetry whose practitioners were strongly opposed to the vagueness of symbolism and strove for absolute clarity of expression through precise, concrete imagery.

Origin:
< Russian akmeízm, equivalent to Greek akmḗ acme + Russian -izm -ism
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