Meanings
- rareuncountableThe process of making something skeletal, or reducing it to the barest form.
We can say, broadly, that minimalism in House and Techno tends to take one of two paths: either skeletalism or massification.
2004, Philip Sherburne, Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music1 more example
A linguistic skeletalism noted by Steinhagen: "in the fourteen words of the poem there is not a single local adverb, no prepositions, no colour adjectives and no verbs of perception" (Statischen Gedichte 162).
2007, Martin Travers, The poetry of Gottfried Benn: text and selfhood, page 387Synonyms: skeletalization
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe process of making something skeletal, or reducing it to the barest form.
Origin
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