Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun primitivism

2 senses of primitivism

Sense 1
crudeness, crudity, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness -- (a wild or unrefined state)
       => wild, natural state, state of nature -- (a wild primitive state untouched by civilization; "he lived in the wild"; "they collected mushrooms in the wild")

Sense 2
primitivism -- (a genre characteristic of (or imitative of) primitive artists or children)
       => genre -- (a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique)