单词 | sensitivist |
释义 | sensitivistn. 1. A sensitive person, esp. one who is very susceptible or responsive to artistic or emotional impressions; a person of a delicate or tender disposition. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > sensitiveness or tenderness > [noun] > sensitive person sensitive plant1665 man of feeling1771 sensitive1807 soul1814 sensitivist1839 tender-heart1904 1839 Monthly Rev. Nov. 314 The lower orders in America are not only very laughable at times, but unendurable to our sensitivist. 1897 Sketch 13 Oct. 510/2 The eldest daughter, a morbid sensitivist, runs hither and thither at the beck of new emotions. 1952 R. W. Brown Dr. Howe & Forsyth Infirmary xi. 106 He was a sensitivist in feeling, and knew well enough that among his colleagues there was a great sudden inclination to rejoice a little that ‘Percy’ was one of them. 2. A member of a school of Dutch writers that flourished in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who aimed to combine the best qualities of impressionism and realism in their works. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adjective] > literary movement, school, or theory classic1743 classical1784 Alexandrian1803 romantic1812 realistic1829 realista1832 romanticist1831 symbolistic1864 symbolistical1864 neo-romantic1875 naturalistic1876 Alexandrine1877 neoclassical1877 veristic1884 impressionistic1886 impressionary1889 romanticistic1889 sensitivist1891 veritistic1894 Félibrian1908 symbolic1910 vorticist1914 Dada1918 Dadaist1918 surrealist1918 postmodernist1926 surrealistic1930 ultraist1931 socialist-realist1935 lettrist1947 social realist1949 social realistic1949 formalist1955 society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > specific schools of writers > writer belonging to Alexandrian1818 cockney1818 Satanist1823 spasmodista1849 Phosphorist1859 Félibre1876 sensitive1891 sensitivist1891 Alexandrine1904 Bloomsburian1927 Bloomsburyite1933 scrutineer1958 1891 E. Gosse in C. Bell tr. L. Couperus Footsteps of Fate Introd. p. v (heading) The Dutch Sensitivists. 1903 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 557/1 They would be realists, or naturalists, or sensitivists, or heaven knows what. 1959 J. A. Russell Romance & Realism vi. 83 At this stage he [sc. Camille Lemonnier] inclines rather to the sensitivists, like them painting the imagination in the form of ever-sensitive emotions. 2005 F. R. Ankersmit Sublime Hist. Experiences iii. 131 The sensitivist wants to ‘creep into’ reality and to overcome all boundaries between the self and the world. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1839 |
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