Meanings
alternative neo-impressionism
- uncountableA genre of French impressionist art that used pointillism to achieve a more formal composition.
1 more example
The method, variously called pointillism, divisionism (separated colours) or neoimpressionism, is especially effective in the half-dozen monumental paintings Seurat considered his toiles de lutte (battle-canvases). […] Neoimpressionism quickly divided viewers: did it herald an abstract future or was it a dry, formulaic dead end?
2025 September 13, Jackie Wullschläger, “Portal to an abstract future or dry dead end?”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*nu
- Proto-Indo-European*néwos
- Proto-Hellenic*néwos
- Ancient Greekνέος (néos)
- Ancient Greekνεο- (neo-)
- Englishneo-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
- Proto-Italic*en
- Proto-Italic*en-
- Latinin-
- Proto-Indo-European*per-?
- Proto-Indo-European*pres-
- Proto-Italic*pres-
- Latinpremō
- Latinimprimō
- Latinimpressiōnem
- Frenchimpression
- Frenchimpressionnisme
- Englishimpressionism
- Englishneoimpressionism
From neo- + impressionism.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Irish nua-Impriseanachas
- nua-Impriseanachasgenre of art
Romanian neoimpresionism
- neoimpresionismgenre of art
Cite this entry
neoimpressionism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/neoimpressionism
“neoimpressionism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/neoimpressionism. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “neoimpressionism,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/neoimpressionism.
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