passéist

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French passéiste.

Adjective

passéist (comparative more passéist, superlative most passéist)

  1. 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.

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