Main Entry: ten·e·brism

Pronunciation: \ˈte-nə-ˌbri-zəm\

Function: noun

Usage: often capitalized

Etymology: Latin tenebrae darkness

Date: 1954

: a style of painting especially associated with the Italian painter Caravaggio and his followers in which most of the figures are engulfed in shadow but some are dramatically illuminated by a beam of light usually from an identifiable source

— ten·e·brist \-brist\ noun or adjective often capitalized