English
Martianism
From Martian + -ism.
Formed from Martian + -ism
Proto-Italic *Māwortis
Old Latin Māvors
Latin Mārs ‘Mars (god of war)’
Latin Mārtius ‘of or relating to the planet Mars’
English Martian
Today it means
noun A minor movement in British poetry in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a kind of surrealism in which familiar things are described in unfamiliar ways.
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