purism noun[ U ] uk /ˈpjʊə.rɪ.zəm/ us /ˈpjʊr.ɪ.zəm/ the fact of believing in and following very traditional rules or ideas in a subject: 正统主义;纯粹主义 The school had an emphasis on modernism and purism in design.学校在设计上强调现代主义和纯粹主义。 He has made a lifelong pursuit of purism in music. 他毕生追求音乐的纯粹主义。 See
purist Dylan chafed at the folk movement's ideological purism. Her style flattens everything in the interest of geometric and linear purism. He was steeped in the strict purism of the modernist school of architecture. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Wanting everything to be right anally anally retentive choosy cover all the basesidiom dot the i's and cross the t'sidiom fuss fussbudget fussily fussiness fusspot particular pedant pedantic pedantically pedantry picky punctilious punctiliously punctiliousness purist |