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noun
A Russian movement in modern art characterized by the creation of nonrepresentational geometric objects using industrial materials.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: art, arts
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noun
A style of modern architecture that flourished in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early 1930s.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: architecture
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noun
A philosophy that asserts the need to construct a mathematical object to prove it exists.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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noun
A psychological epistemology which argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from their experiences.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: education, human-sciences, philosophy, psychology, sciences
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noun
A school of studying international relations that prioritises the way the behaviour of polities and agents in geopolitics is constructed by norms and identities.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: international relations
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noun
an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: artistic movement, art movement
History
Etymology tree English constructive Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English constructivism From constructive + -ism.
Across languages
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