ruralism
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editruralism (countable and uncountable, plural ruralisms)
- Advocacy of rural life instead of urbanism or city living.
- Rural living.
- 1894, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Marcella[3]:
- Here, for the first time, had Marcella been brought face to face with the agricultural world as it is--no stage ruralism, but the bare fact in one of its most pitiful aspects.
- 1975, Scott Nearing, Civilization and Beyond[4]:
- At the end of the cycle Roman culture was turning its back upon ruralism and moving into a culture that was to be chiefly urban during an entire millennium.
- The state or quality of being rustic.
- 1994 April 8, Peter Margasak, “Kahil El'Zabar, Malachi Favors, Billy Bang”, in Chicago Reader[5]:
- The beautifully hypnotic patterns that have become an earmark, of the Ritual Trio are well suited to Bang's varied solo flights; on the album's affecting "Pedro," Bang's rough violin scrapes convey a backwoodsy ruralism, recalling the rootsy fiddle playing of southern prewar black string bands, while the title track with its propulsive near-swing finds him putting out a wild, Ornette-ish sound splash.
- 2007 September 8, David Hajdu, “Tenor of the Times”, in New York Times[6]:
- He had a robust earthiness that signified authenticity, especially to Americans of the postwar era who prized ruralism and took vernacular artists to be truer, more legitimate, than trained urban professionals.
- (countable) A rural idiom or expression.
Synonyms
edit- (state or quality of being rural or rustic): rusticity, backwoodsiness; rurality, ruralness, rusticism
Coordinate terms
edit- (advocacy of rural living): agrarianism
Related terms
editSee also
editRomanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French ruralisme.
Noun
editruralism n (plural ruralisme)
Declension
editDeclension of ruralism
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) ruralism | ruralismul | (niște) ruralisme | ruralismele |
genitive/dative | (unui) ruralism | ruralismului | (unor) ruralisme | ruralismelor |
vocative | ruralismule | ruralismelor |