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While the destruction wrought by today’s iconoclasts is figurative—in modern use, an iconoclast is someone who criticizes or opposes beliefs and practices that are widely accepted—the first iconoclasts directed their ire at religious icons, those representations of sacred individuals used as objects of veneration.
noun. a person who attacks cherished beliefs, traditional institutions, etc., as being based on error or superstition. Synonyms: radical, dissenter, rebel, nonconformist. a breaker or destroyer of images, especially those set up for religious veneration. iconoclast. / aɪˈkɒnəˌklæst /.
Late 14th – early 15th-century icon. Iconoclasm (from Greek: εἰκών, eikṓn, 'figure, icon' + κλάω, kláō, 'to break') [i] is the social belief in the importance of the destruction of icons and other images or monuments, most frequently for religious or political reasons.
ICONOCLAST meaning: 1. a person who strongly opposes generally accepted beliefs and traditions: 2. a person who…. Learn more.
ICONOCLAST definition: 1. a person who strongly opposes generally accepted beliefs and traditions: 2. a person who…. Learn more.
To be called an iconoclast today is usually kind of cool — they're rugged individualists, bold thinkers who don't give a hoot what tradition calls for. But back in medieval Greece, the iconoclasts had a more thuggish reputation.
Definition of iconoclast noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
