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ac•me•ism
(ak′mē iz′əm),USA pronunciation n.
- Literaturea school of early 20th-century Russian poetry whose practitioners were strongly opposed to the vagueness of symbolism and strove for absolute clarity of expression through precise, concrete imagery.
- Russian akmeízm, equivalent. to Greek akmé̄ acme + Russian -izm -ism