Alogism

Quick meaning: Alogism is a noun meaning (art) An absurd or nonsensical element deliberately added to a work that belongs to the alogism movement.

Meaning

(art) An absurd or nonsensical element deliberately added to a work that belongs to the alogism movement.

More Meanings

1. Irrationality; the rejection of logical thinking as a means of approaching truth.
2. An irrational statement or line of argument; a logical error.
3. An inconsistency or arbitrary situation that follows no logical pattern.
4. (art) An early 20th century movement in painting and writing, emerging from the Russian avant-garde, which made use of antirational or nonsensical elements.

Example Sentences

But many verbal absurdities and alogisms are scattered throughout the book.

The dadaists emphasized that the basis of the creative process stems from alogisms.

The formal composition in all of these works done in the style of alogism is structured with mathematical precision approaching that of a blueprint.

His right eye was black; the left, for some strange reason (alogism), green. Black eyebrows, but (alogism) one higher that the other. In short a foreigner (alogism).

Word Forms

• alogisms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include anomalism, aleatoricism, analysandum, mytho-logic, abstractionism, panlogism.

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