Primitivism Synonyms

prĭmĭ-tĭ-vĭzəm
A wild or unrefined state
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. crudeness
  2. crudity
  3. primitiveness
  4. rudeness

Words Related to Primitivism

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. post-modernism
  2. postmodernism
  3. post-modernist
  4. primitivist
  5. aestheticism
  6. modernism
  7. situationism
  8. utopianism
  9. naturalism
  10. postmodernist
  11. essentialism
  12. post-structuralism

Primitivism Sentence Examples

  • When we visited there was a very striking exhibition examining how African folk art has influenced primitivism in western art.

  • Museum Without Walls stands as both totem and architectural model, creating a contemporary primitivism from cultural refuse.

  • An anarchist primitivism worthy of support would reject scientism, biologism, and the selective and uncritical embrace of anthropological research into gatherer-hunter cultures.

  • Modern primitive cultural leaders included Fakir Musafar, who promoted modern primitivism as an offshoot of the 1970's punk subculture.