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

declension of pointillism (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) pointillism	pointillismul
genitive/dative	(unui) pointillism	pointillismului
vocative	pointillismule