Noun

The state or quality of being primitive

The opinion that life was better or more moral among primitive peoples, or among children, and has deteriorated with civilization

Any of a group of related styles in the arts, influenced by a belief in the superiority of primitive forms

*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 18, author=Ben Rayner, title=Ben Rayner's reasons to live, work=Toronto Star citation

, passage=Exuberant in its primitivism , High Kicks has a joyous, slightly naive spark that sometimes evokes the sort of tuneful messes to which Calvin Johnson's name is often attached. }}