neoistn.adj.
/ˈniːəʊɪst/, U.S. /ˈnioʊəst/ A. n.
A person who employs or favours new ideas or styles.
ΚΠ
1916 E. Pound Let. 21 Apr. (1971) 78 I do not think the present methods of the neoists are in any way designed to further or foster the ‘few perfect’ things against Chestertonian or Paul Fortian sloppiness.
1986 New York 23 June 65/2 The Neoists..confront stasis and decay by appropriating the ‘look’ of dead styles.
1997 Evening Standard (Nexis) 5 Dec. 45 Sixties survivors and Nineties neoists alike are staging The Recurring Technicolor Dream, a 13-hour psychedelic spectacular of film, theatre, sound, images and ideas.
B. adj.
Favouring or exemplifying that which is new.
ΚΠ
1986 New York 23 June 65 (heading) Neoist art—Abstract Expressionism without myths—is being pushed, not by critics, who are generally hostile, but by a few shrewd collectors.
1993 Wire Feb. 67/2 Koglmann's album..is altogether more formal, austere and cerebral, representing his conscious reaction against the free music ethos with which he has matured. This is not revivalist, reconstructionalist or neoist, though it draws from genres more venerable than the post-bop orthodoxy.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1916