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Brutal, violent behaviour; savagery.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- 1839, Earl of Clarendon, Speech to House of Lords, recorded in Mirror of Parliament, republished in 1840 January-June, The Eclectic Review, New Series, Volume 7, page 455, Their punishments for crimes were of the most savage nature: and the absurdities of the Theodosian Code, together with the ancient customs of Germany, came to be all blended into a singular amalgamation of refinement and meanness,—of brutalism and bravery.
- 2013, Aimee Gasston, Katherine Mansfield, Cannibal, Janet Wilson, Gerri Kimber, Delia da Sousa Correa (editors), Katherine Mansfield and the (Post)colonial, Edinburgh University Press, page 15, She revelled at being dubbed the 'little savage from New Zealand' by her principal at Queen's College, London, and as an adult would develop a commitment to brutalism by consistently refusing to represent a falsely civilised world view in her fiction.
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Alternative letter-case form of Brutalism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, countable, uncountable
Topics: architecture
Examples
- 2015, Johnny Rogan, Ray Davies: A Complicated Life, Vintage (The Bodley Head), page 375, A founder of the Victorian Society in 1958, Betjeman was a celebrated critic of architectural brutalism and an active campaigner against the march of modernism.
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A style of modernist architecture characterized by angular geometry and overt signs of the construction process.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: architecture
Examples
- 2004, B. M. Boyle, Brutalism, R. Stephen Sennott (editor), Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture, Volume 1: A-F, Taylor & Francis (Fitzroy Dearborn), page 181, Nonetheless, despite its radical appearance, Brutalism could claim, if not legitimacy, at least ancestry in pre-World War II modernism.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: New Brutalism
Antonyms: none provided
From brutal + -ism.
From brutal + -ism. Popularized in 1954 by the English architects Alison and Peter Smithson, from earlier Swedish nybrutalism (“New Brutalism”), after French béton brut (“raw concrete”), the material favored by Le Corbusier.
Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
brutalisme
— style of modernist architecture
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Chinese Mandarin:
粗獷主義 /粗犷主义
(cūguǎngzhǔyì)
— style of modernist architecture
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Chinese Mandarin:
粗野主義 /粗野主义
(cūyězhǔyì)
— style of modernist architecture
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Finnish:
brutalismi
— style of modernist architecture
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Finnish:
betonibrutalismi
— style of modernist architecture
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German:
Brutalismus
— style of modernist architecture
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Italian:
brutalismo
— style of modernist architecture
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Japanese:
ブルータリズム
(burutalizumu)
— style of modernist architecture
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Macedonian:
брутализам
(brutalizam)
— style of modernist architecture
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Polish:
brutalizm
— style of modernist architecture
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Portuguese:
brutalismo
— style of modernist architecture
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Spanish:
brutalismo
— style of modernist architecture
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Welsh:
Briwtaliaeth
— style of modernist architecture
