Word family noun impression impressionism impressionist impressiveness adjective impressionable impressive ≠ unimpressive impressionistic unimpressed verb impress adverb impressively impressionistically
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishimpressionismim‧pres‧sion‧is‧m, Impressionism /ɪmˈpreʃənɪzəm/ noun [uncountable] 1 AVPa style of painting used especially in France in the 19th century that uses colour instead of details of form to produce effects of light or feeling → realism2 APMa style of music from the late 19th and early 20th centuries that produces feelings and images by the quality of sounds rather than by a pattern of notesExamples from the Corpus
impressionism• The challenge to academic painting that impressionism posed was a challenge both in form and in content. 