reductivism

re·duc·tiv·ism

[ri-duhk-tuh-viz-uhm]
noun

Origin:
1965–70; reductive + -ism

re·duc·tiv·ist, noun
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reductivism

noun
an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color [syn: minimalism
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Reductivism is always a great word to know.
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a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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