antisymbolism

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ symbolism

Noun

antisymbolism (uncountable)

1. Opposition to symbolism.
   • 1854, Richard Graves, An Analysis of the Revelations‎^[1], page 229:

     These are only a few of the absurdities of the theory of antisymbolism, but they are sufficient, one should think, to confute it.

   • 1963, Carl Joachim Friedrich, Man and his government: an empirical theory of politics, page 632:

     These are materialism, antiformalism and antisymbolism, verification through practical results, the partisanship of science, and the need of modifying scientific dogma only by action of the political leadership […]

   • 1976, AIA Journal, volume 65, page 66:

     Thus the extreme antisymbolism, antiornament and anti-Beaux-Arts position of the Bauhaus and other European modems.