skeletalism
English
Etymology
skeletal + -ism
Noun
skeletalism (uncountable)
- (rare) The process of making something skeletal, or reducing it to the barest form.
- 2004, Philip Sherburne, in Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music
- We can say, broadly, that minimalism in House and Techno tends to take one of two paths: either skeletalism or massification.
- 2007, Martin Travers, The poetry of Gottfried Benn: text and selfhood (page 387)
- 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).
- 2004, Philip Sherburne, in Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music
Synonyms
- skeletalization