intimist

intimist
I. \\-_mə̇st\ noun (-s)
Usage: often capitalized
Etymology: French intimiste, from intime intimate + -iste -ist
: an intimist painter
II. adjective
Usage: often capitalized
1. : of, relating to, or practicing intimism
2. of fiction : dealing chiefly with intimate and private especially psychological experiences

the peculiarly modern feeling of individual helplessness that the war brought into … people's consciousness, and it made sense of that emotion as the intimist novel does not as a rule — Anthony West

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/in"teuh mist/, adj.
1. of or pertaining to the recording of intimate personal and psychological experiences as a basis for art, literature, etc.: an intimist novel.
n.
2. an intimist painter, writer, etc.
[1900-05; < F intimiste, equiv. to intime INTIMATE1 +-iste -IST]

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inˈtimist (French intimiste /ɛ̃-tē-mēst/) noun and adjective
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Main Entry:intimism

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