A person who believes that concepts or ideas are the primary reality; a philosophical position, or a follower of conceptism in literature.
From conception plus -ist, meaning one who follows or practices. In Spanish literature, this term described writers of the Conceptism movement (conceptismo) of the 16th-17th centuries.
Spanish Conceptists were wild—they played with language so aggressively, packing multiple meanings into single words and phrases, that some poems needed footnotes to understand what they were saying.
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