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dadaïsme — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • dada noun An early childhood word for father.

Senses

dadaïsme is used for these senses in English:

  • Dada A cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland during and as a reaction to World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920, which primarily involved visual arts, literature (mainly poetry), theatre, and graphic design, and was characterized by deliberate irrationality, disillusionment, cynicism, nihilism, randomness, and rejection of the prevailing standards in art.
  • dadaism The cultural movement of Dada.

dada — full definition

  1. noun An early childhood word for father.
  2. noun An early 20th-century art and literary movement that rejected logic and tradition in favor of absurdity and provocation, born partly out of disgust at the First World War.

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