Etymology

Acmeism

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Today it means: A literary movement in early twentieth-century Russia, reacting against symbolism and concerned with greater immediacy in poetic language. Full definition →

Russian акмеи́зм
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  1. Russian · borrowed fromакмеи́зм
  2. English todayAcmeism

From Russian акмеи́зм (akmeízm), from Ancient Greek.

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