ultraismn.
/ˈʌltrəɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈəltrəˌɪzəm/ a. The principles or tenets of one who holds extreme opinions on any question; the fact of holding such opinions.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > extreme opinion, dogmatism > [noun]
dogmatism1603
pragmaticalness1626
positivenessa1649
magisteriousness1650
magisterialness1651
dogmaticalness1663
dogmaticality1705
cock-surety1819
ultraism1821
pontificating1825
doctrinairism1836
absolutism1854
dogmaticism1856
doctrinaritya1869
doctrinism1872
doctrinarianism1877
cocksureness1878
cocksureism1889
1821 H. More in Roberts Mem. (1835) IV. 178 I think there is ultraism on both sides of the question.
1842 G. S. Faber Provinc. Lett. (1844) II. 116 The Ultraism of those, who..would fain establish a bundle of Unscripturalities as the catholic doctrine of the primitive Church.
1880 O. Johnson W. L. Garrison 32 How foolish to throw away all chances of doing any good by such ultraism!
b. An instance of this.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > extreme opinion, dogmatism > [noun] > instance of
ultraism1824
pontification1920
1824 T. Medwin Conv. with Byron II. 5 To the great horror of the former, she soon sported her Ultraisms.
1857 O. A. Brownson Convert v. 97 My alleged ultraisms, and tendency to run to extremes.
1865 J. H. Newman in W. Ward Life Cardinal Newman (1912) II. xxiii. 102 I abominate the fierce tyranny which..calls to account everyone who ventures to keep clear of ultra-isms.
Draft additions 1993
2. Literature With capital initial. [ < Spanish ultraísmo.] A Spanish and Spanish-American expressionist movement founded in 1918 and characterized by the rejection of traditional literary forms in favour of free verse and radical imagery. Also transferred, any unconventional artistic style or method.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > literary movements or theories
romanticism1821
romantism1828
naturalism1845
realism1856
sensationism1862
symbolism1866
classicisma1878
eroticism1881
impressionism1883
sensitivism1891
verism1892
neoclassicism1893
veritism1894
social realism1898
neo-realism1908
futurism1909
Félibrism1911
postmodernism1914
vorticism1914
Dada1918
Dadaism1918
Scythism1921
Scythianism1923
Russian Formalism1925
surrealism1927
Neue Sachlichkeit1929
populism1930
Sachlichkeit1930
dirty realism1931
ultraism1932
thingism1935
formalism1943
organicism1945
lettrism1946
New Wave1960
socialist realism1967
catastrophism1969
pointillism1972
po-mo1986
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > school of poets or poetic movement > [noun]
Lake poets1816
Lake school1816
Satanic school1821
Spasmodic School1832
imagism1912
Acmeism1913
Adamism1913
unanimism1931
ultraism1932
the Movement1954
Simultaneism1959
spatialism1964
1932 H. A. Holmes Spanish Amer. in Song & Story 54 He continued..the campaign in favor of Ultraism.
1934 G. D. Craig Modernist Trend Spanish-Amer. Poetry i. 23 Ultraism emerged as a definite cult in 1919, and its principles as expounded by Torres in his Literaturas europeas de vanguardia (Madrid 1926) show certain points of resemblance to Italian Futurism.
1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Oct. 596/1 Ultraism, which also has French roots, arose in America and spread to Spain.
1977 J. A. Cuddon Dict. Lit. Terms 713 Ultraism is particularly noticeable in the Theatre of the Absurd.
1982 N.Y. Times 2 Oct. 17/2 A leading exponent of Ultraism, a form of Spanish expressionism.
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