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acmeism

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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:
< Russ akmeízm, equiv. to Gk akm acme + Russ -izm -ism
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