Etymology

neoconceptualism

Today it means: A school of art of the 1980s and 1990s, characterised by appropriation and the rejection of traditional artistic methods and values, that derives from the conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s. Full definition →

English conceptualism ← Medieval Latin conceptuālis ← Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*nu
  2. Proto-Indo-European*néwos
  3. Proto-Hellenic*néwos
  4. Ancient Greekνέος (néos)
  5. Ancient Greekνεο- (neo-)
  6. Englishneo-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  8. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  9. Proto-Italic*kom
  10. Proto-Italic*kom-
  11. Latincon-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*kap-
  13. Proto-Indo-European*kapyéti
  14. Proto-Italic*kapjō
  15. Latincapiō
  16. Ancient Greekσῠλλᾰμβᾰ́νω (sŭllămbắnō)
  17. Latinconcipiō
  18. Latinconceptus
  19. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  20. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  21. Medieval Latinconceptuālis
  22. Englishconceptual
  23. Englishconceptualism
  24. English todayneoconceptualism

From neo- + conceptualism.

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