• Primitivist

    Origin

    primitive + -ist

    Full definition of primitivist

    Adjective

    primitivist

    1. Exhibiting or practicing primitivism, the advocacy of primitive over refined forms
      • 2009, February 6, Ben Sisario, Lux Interior, 62, Singer in the Punk-Rock Era, Is Dead, As connoisseurs of seemingly all forms of trashy pop culture from the 1950s and ’60s — ranging from ghoulish comic books to Z-grade horror films to the rawest garage rock — ...
        they developed a sound that mixed the menace of rockabilly’s primitivist fringe with dark psychedelia and the blunt simplicity of punk.

    Noun

    primitivist

    (plural primitivists)
    1. A proponent of primitivism.

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