primitiveness
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The orchestra sometimes provided halfhearted modernities, medieval primitivisms.
From Time Magazine Archive
Toward the end of the Eisenhower years, the literary critic Leslie Fiedler wrote a lively diatribe about the "cult of the child," which he denounced as "this most maudlin of primitivisms."
From Time Magazine Archive
