vorticism
noun
vorticism is a noun meaning “A short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th century, incorporating elements of cubism and futurism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-O-R-T-I-C-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 74 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vorticism is vorticisms.
What does vorticism mean?
noun
- 1
A short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th century, incorporating elements of cubism and futurism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vorticism
- vorticisms plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vorticism?
Vorticism appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does vorticism come from?
From vortex + -ism, attributed to Ezra Pound.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).