Usually means: Fear of empty space visually.
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  1. horror vacui: Merriam-Webster
  2. horror vacui: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. horror vacui: Wiktionary
  4. Horror Vacui (album), Horror Vacui, Horror vacui (disambiguation), Horror vacui (film), Horror vacui (physics), Horror vacui: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. horror vacui: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (horror vacui)

noun:  (historical, sciences) The Aristotelian principle that there are no vacuums in nature.
noun:  The abhorrence of a vacuum; the general tendency to dislike empty space.
noun:  (art) In particular, the tendency of an artist (or of art) to fill an entire surface with detail, leaving no blank space.

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