Symbolist

Quick meaning: Symbolist is an adjective meaning (art, literature) Of or pertaining to the Symbolist movement in late 19th-century and early 20th-century European arts and literature.

Meaning

(art, literature) Of or pertaining to the Symbolist movement in late 19th-century and early 20th-century European arts and literature.

More Meanings

1. One who employs symbols.
2. (art) A symbolist poet or artist.
3. (artificial intelligence) A proponent of symbolic artificial intelligence.

Example Sentences

At the helm of the symbolists was [Frank] Rosenblatt’s nemesis, MIT professor Marvin Minsky.

The general picture that has emerged is one of Cubism bubbling up out of a thick Parisian stew of symbolist poetry, Cézanne, cafe society, African masks, absinthe and a fascination with all things mechanical and modern, mostly airplanes and automatons.

The symbolists had not all an explicit philosophy; but they were all aware of potencies in the world or in themselves which language cannot articulately express, and which are yet more vitally real than the 'facts' which we can grasp and handle, and the 'respectable' people whom we can measure and reckon with.

Word Forms

• symbolists

Related Words

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