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stylistic

stylistic

15 5.6
Having a particular way of using language or making art
  • adjective
  • /staɪˈlɪstɪk/
translation icon : estilístico
  • I have shown how Fugard employs structural and stylistic literary devices to explore a specifically postcolonial experience of trauma.
  • stylistic devices
  • stylistic analysis
  • stylistic similarity

But rather, these words often sort of paint narcissism as sort of a mystical foible or a stylistic issue or a quirk.

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Examples

  • In two important articles, Michael Moody has examined the stylistic techniques that produce this sense of existential discomfort.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Contemporary Indigenous artists have answered these impositions with stylistic innovations and highly politicized visions.

    Academic text (2008)
  • And I never met anyone, man or woman, in business, who was so careful and precise about everything, every stylistic detail.

  • After I got involved with these communication intensive subjects, I became much more aware of the sort of stylistic issues in mathematics writing.

  • But he does have this interesting stylistic innovation of inflecting the English language in the direction of Spanish.

  • Journalists often make stylistic choices in newswriting and presentation to produce intended effects on readers.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Like Vanity Fair, the fan magazines presented glamour as a style and as a stylistic quality.

    Academic text (2017)
  • As another historian put it, the range, altitude and stylistic sophistication of his writing seem almost otherworldly.

  • Nonetheless, the play's multiple revivals in the 1920s and publication in 1930 indicate its stylistic and thematic prescience.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Journalists often make stylistic choices in newswriting and presentation to produce intended effects on readers.

Synonyms

artistic
vsstylistic
258 3.5

Showing creative skill or good taste in art, like a painting

focuses on manner of expression rather than on art or its creators
stylized
vsstylistic
11 5.9

Made to follow an artistic look rather than appear natural

relates generally to how something is expressed or performed in a particular way

How Stylistic

ornate
  • Literature
26 7.0
stylized
11 5.9
stylistic
15 5.6
conventional
175 2.8
neutral
24 3.5

Surface Forms

stylistic positive

Morphology

stylistic = style (transparent) = style + istic

The adjective is clearly formed from the noun 'style' plus the adjective-forming suffix '-istic', meaning 'relating to style'.

Etymology

The word stylistic comes from style, which originally meant a small 'writing tool' and later came to mean a person's 'way' of writing or doing art. So stylistic means 'relating to style', the particular choices someone makes when they express ideas in language, art, or design, like the choices a stylist makes in fashion.