pointillism

English

Etymology

From French pointillisme, from pointiller (“to dot, to mark with points”), from point (“dot, point”).

Noun

Detail of Georges Seurat's painting La Parade.

pointillism (usually uncountable, plural pointillisms)

1. (art) The use of many small areas of color to construct an image.

   Synonym: pointillage

Hypernyms

• divisionism

Derived terms

• pointillist

Translations

painting technique

• Afrikaans: pointillisme
• Catalan: puntillisme m
• Czech: pointilismus (cs) m
• Dutch: pointillisme (nl) n
• Finnish: pointillismi (fi)
• French: pointillisme (fr) m
• Greek: πουαντιγισμός (el) m (pouantigismós), πουαντιλισμός (el) m (pouantilismós)
• Maori: tā tongitongi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pointillisme m

  Nynorsk: pointillisme m

• Spanish: puntillismo (es) m
• Swedish: pointillism (sv) c

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pointillisme.

Noun

pointillism n (uncountable)

1. (art) pointillism

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	pointillism	pointillismul
genitive-dative	pointillism	pointillismului
vocative	pointillismule