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Wiktionary
- n. 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.
Etymologies
- Martian + -ism (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Raine's best work, including the wonderfully novelistic History: the Home Movie, has always depended less upon his 'Martianism' I mean: upon a notional super-ingenuity of poetic simile than upon his ability to make imagery vital via precision and concision and vividness.”
“I understand that you are doing this to make us Martians feel as though we are among friends, and to demonstrate your absolute lack of Martianophobia or your committed anti-Martianism.”
“We Martians are used to being in the minority, but it makes us impatient to have other people remind us of it all the time -- in the name of pro-Martianism, no less.”
“If you're in an "Earth" relationship, then your bi-Martianism is probably irrelevant, unless you're in an open relationship.”
“Mermanism "is clever it's about as accurate as" Martianism to Mermanism ".”
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