1. Plural of imagism; literary or artistic movements, practices, or works characterized by the use of clear, precise imagery and the rejection of sentimentality.
Usage: Often capitalized when referring to the early 20th-century literary movement; Literary/artistic context

Examples

• The imagisms of the early modernist poets emphasized concrete images over abstract ideas.
• Critics studied various imagisms across different artistic disciplines and time periods.
• Pound's contributions to imagisms influenced generations of writers who followed.
• The exhibition explored imagisms in both poetry and visual art from the 1910s.