Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1.
a school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye;
developed by Georges Seurat and his followers late in 19th century France;
2.
a genre of painting characterized by the application of paint in dots and small strokes;
developed by Georges Seurat and his followers in late 19th century France;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Neoimpressionism \Ne`o*im*pres"sion*ism\
(n[=e]`[-o]*[i^]m*pr[e^]sh"[u^]n*[i^]z'm), n. (Painting)
A theory or practice which is a further development, on more
rigorously scientific lines, of the theory and practice of
Impressionism, originated by George Seurat (1859-91), and
carried on by Paul Signac (1863- -) and others. Its method is
marked by the laying of pure primary colors in minute dots
upon a white ground, any given line being produced by a
variation in the proportionate quantity of the primary colors
employed. This method is also known as Pointillism
(stippling).
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
pointillism
n 1: a school of painters who used a technique of painting with
tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's
eye; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers late in
19th century France
2: a genre of painting characterized by the application of paint
in dots and small strokes; developed by Georges Seurat and
his followers in late 19th century France