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Word of the day: Day 34 Word: Representationalism Word Class: Noun Pronunciation (British): reh-pruh-zen-tei-shuh-nuh-li-zm Definition: 1. Also called representative realism. (Epistemology) the view that the objects of perception are ideas or sense data that represent external objects, especially the Lockean doctrine that the perceived idea represents exactly the primary qualities of the external object. 2. (Fine Arts) the practice or principle of representing or depicting an object in a recognizable manner, especially the portrayal of the surface characteristics of an object as they appear to the eye. Examples sentence(s): The artist eventually abandoned the representationalism of his earlier work. Person who coined: ? First known usage (date): 1842 (Merriam Webster) 1895-1900 (dictionary.com) First known usage (which book, poem etc.): ? Etymology: representational + -ism Sources: (Remove the spaces for links) Dictionary.com (ww w.dictionary.com/browse/representationalism), Merriam Webster (ww w.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/representationalism), Wiktionary (en.wiktionary.org/wiki/representationalism)