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skeletalism

noun

Etymology

From skeletal + -ism.

  1. derived from *(s)kelh₁-✻
  2. derived from σκελετός
  3. borrowed from sceleton
  4. suffixed as skeletal — “skeleton + al”
  5. suffixed as skeletalism — “skeletal + ism”

Definitions

  1. The process of making something skeletal, or reducing it to the barest form.

    • We can say, broadly, that minimalism in House and Techno tends to take one of two paths: either skeletalism or massification.
    • A linguistic skeletalism noted by Steinhagen: "in the fourteen words of the poem there is not a single local adverb, no prepositions, no colour adjectives and no verbs of perception" (Statischen Gedichte 162).

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA