passéist

plural passéists

1. A person having an excessive regard for the past.

   Antonyms: futurist

comparative more passéist · superlative most passéist

1. Having an excessive regard for the past.

   The last section of the film contrasted a Futurist with a passéist five-o'clock tea.

   2000, Günter Berghaus, International Futurism in Arts and Literature

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   If Mr. Marinetti had composed a Passéist poem as well as a Futurist “record” upon the same subject, we might have been able to judge.

   1914, “Futurism and Form in Poetry”, in The Fortnightly Review, volume 101

   Rather, in representing the passéist 'nightmare' that haunts the progressive artists, it affirms the urgency of society's Futurist renewal that is to follow.

   2012, The Great Black Spider on Its Knock-kneed Tripod: Reflections of Cinema in Early Twentieth-century Italy

   Synonyms: passéistic · Antonyms: futurist, futuristic