primitivism

/prim-i-ti-viz-uhm/US // ˈprɪm ɪ tɪˌvɪz əm //UK // (ˈprɪmɪtɪˌvɪzəm) //

原始主义,原始社会主义,原始人主义,原始社会

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a recurrent theory or belief, as in philosophy or art, that the qualities of primitive or chronologically early cultures are superior to those of contemporary civilization.
- : the state of being primitive: the primitivism of the Stone Age peoples.
- : the qualities or style characterizing primitive art.

He devotes an entire chapter to the co-existence of “primitivism and technology.”
In English letters Wordsworth in his earlier verse illustrated the same sentimental primitivism.
Yours is the faineant spirit of the decadent, masquerading in the garb of a sham primitivism.
In an age when a fog of dreary sameness comes over all the civilised world, the Balkans have a great asset in their primitivism.
And this theory is the excuse for all the attempts at primitivism of which we have lately seen so much.
All the time we are struggling between the rankest primitivism and the most delicate intrigue.