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Definition of Lyricism
1. Noun. The property of being suitable for singing.
Generic synonyms: Musicality, Musicalness
Derivative terms: Lyrical, Songful
2. Noun. Unrestrained and exaggerated enthusiasm.
Definition of Lyricism
1. n. A lyric composition.
Definition of Lyricism
1. Noun. Great enthusiasm. ¹
2. Noun. Suitability to be sung or used as lyrics. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lyricism
1. the quality of being lyrics [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lyricism
Literary usage of Lyricism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Cosmopolitan Spirit in Literature: A Study of by Joseph Texte (1899)
"... feeling for nature, and the sadness of the poet are simply three forms of the
same disposition of soul, and constitute the whole of Rousseau's lyricism. ..."
2. The Art of Music: A Comprehensive Library of Information for Music Lovers by Daniel Gregory Mason (1915)
"... lyricism; choral dancing and choral lyricism; the drama—Greek instruments;
notation. THE importance of the music of the most ancient civilizations and ..."
3. The Literary Movement in France During the Nineteenth Century by Georges Pellissier (1897)
"ROMANTIC lyricism. I. AS we shall see, the militant action of Romanticism will
be brought to bear particularly upon the theatre, which from the first ..."
4. The Science of the Hand, Or, The Art of Recognising the Tendencies of the by Casimir Stanislaus d' Arpentigny, Edward Heron-Allen (1886)
"Catholics and Protestants, lyricism, Mysticism. LOVERS of art, of poetry, of
romance, and of mystery, ^ 380. pointed hands require a Deity such as they ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"With him, however, lyricism results less from the outpouring of his inmost ...
In a later period this impersonal lyricism,which has dictated all his ..."
6. Manual of the History of French Literature by Ferdinand Brunetière (1898)
"... in itself determines indirectly the nature of his lyricism.—Rousseau's "
lyricism " is impersonal lyricism;—that is it is the very contrary of lyricism ..."
7. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"The love scenes are also distinguished from the rest of the play by the strain
of lyricism in which the author indulges; it would, indeed, be difficult to ..."
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