skeletalism

English

Etymology

skeletal +‎ -ism

Noun

skeletalism (uncountable)

1. (rare) The process of making something skeletal, or reducing it to the barest form.
   • 2004, Philip Sherburne, Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music:

     We can say, broadly, that minimalism in House and Techno tends to take one of two paths: either skeletalism or massification.

   • 2007, Martin Travers, The poetry of Gottfried Benn: text and selfhood, page 387:

     A linguistic skeletalism noted by Steinhagen: "in the fourteen words of the poem there is not a single local adverb, no prepositions, no colour adjectives and no verbs of perception" (Statischen Gedichte 162).

Synonyms

• skeletalization