Meaning and example
a school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers late in 19th century France
The passage used "pointillism" to mean a school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye; developed by georges seurat and his followers late in 19th century france.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.199 places pointillism in the rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 57.9% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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