English Explanatory Dictionary

Martianism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A minor movement in British poetry in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a kind of surrealism in which familiar things are described in unfamiliar ways.

Word forms

Martianism

Etymology

From Martian + -ism.

Synonyms

Martian poetry
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