passéist

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French passéiste.

Adjective

passéist (comparative more passéist, superlative most passéist)

1. Having an excessive regard for the past.
   • 1914, “Futurism and Form in Poetry”, in The Fortnightly Review, volume 101:

     If Mr. Marinetti had composed a Passéist poem as well as a Futurist “record” upon the same subject, we might have been able to judge.

   • 2000, Günter Berghaus, International Futurism in Arts and Literature:

     The last section of the film contrasted a Futurist with a passéist five-o'clock tea.

   • 2012, The Great Black Spider on Its Knock-kneed Tripod: Reflections of Cinema in Early Twentieth-century Italy:

     Rather, in representing the passéist 'nightmare' that haunts the progressive artists, it affirms the urgency of society's Futurist renewal that is to follow.

Antonyms

• futurist

Noun

passéist (plural passéists)

1. A person having an excessive regard for the past.

Antonyms

• futurist

Anagrams

• pastises