passéist
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French passéiste.
Adjective[edit]
passéist (comparative more passéist, superlative most passéist)
- Having an excessive regard for the past.
- 1914, “Futurism and Form in Poetry”, in The Fortnightly Review, volume 101:
- If Mr. Marinetti had composed a Passéist poem as well as a Futurist “record” upon the same subject, we might have been able to judge.
- 2000, Günter Berghaus, International Futurism in Arts and Literature:
- The last section of the film contrasted a Futurist with a passéist five-o'clock tea.
- 2012, The Great Black Spider on Its Knock-kneed Tripod: Reflections of Cinema in Early Twentieth-century Italy:
- Rather, in representing the passéist 'nightmare' that haunts the progressive artists, it affirms the urgency of society's Futurist renewal that is to follow.
Antonyms[edit]
Noun[edit]
passéist (plural passéists)
- A person having an excessive regard for the past.