acmeism: Meaning and Definition of

ac•me•ism

Pronunciation: (ak'mē-iz"um), [key]
— n.
  1. a 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.
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