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nonfigurative

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Adj.1.nonfigurative - not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of naturenonfigurative - not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature; "a large abstract painting"
abstractionist, nonobjective, abstract
nonrepresentational - of or relating to a style of art in which objects do not resemble those known in physical nature
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