Definition of impressionistic
- intuitions and impressionistic anecdotal accounts
- —Sidney Hook
He wrote an impressionistic account of the battle scene.
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1886
: involving general feelings or thoughts rather than specific knowledge or facts
: of or relating to impressionism
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