kirigami means an art similar to origami, with cutting permitted. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 92 out of 100.
kirigami is pronounced /ˌkɪɹɪˈɡɑːmɪ/.
Why “kirigami” is a great word
KIRIGAMI — [Noun] The Japanese art of creating intricate, three-dimensional designs by cutting and folding a single sheet of paper. From Japanese 切り紙 (kirigami), from 切り (kiri, 'to cut') + 紙 (kami, 'paper'). Unlike origami, a discipline of pure folding, or papercutting, a flat, planar craft, kirigami is a hybrid art of calculated violation, where incision and crease are collaborators in creation. It is the snowflake's crystalline complexity released by scissor-snips, the pop-up castle leaping from a page, the skeletal lantern transformed by a network of cuts—a testament that subtraction, when guided by structure, yields intricate liberation.
noun
- An art similar to origami, with cutting permitted.