anti-modernist

adjective

an·​ti-mod·​ern·​ist
ˌan-tē-ˈmä-dər-nist,
ˌan-tī- How to pronounce anti-modernist (audio)
variants or less commonly antimodernist
: opposed to the values of modernism or modernity
… mixture of nativist ideology, anti-modernist sentiment, political isolationism, and frankly stated racialism …Hilton Kramer
Prohibition, like nativism and antisemitism, tapped into deeply rooted antimodernist trends in American life; it attempted to turn back the cultural clock …Jonathan D. Sarna
anti-modernist noun
or less commonly antimodernist
The antimodernists prevailed, perhaps fortunately, given the deplorable standards of new French architecture. Gerald Clarke
anti-modernism noun
or less commonly antimodernism
ˌan-tē-ˈmä-dər-ni-zəm,
ˌan-tī- How to pronounce anti-modernist (audio)
This left-wing anti-modernism is interesting or not, depending on your point of view. Stephen Holmes
Rather than assume the postmodern position, he has been willing to take up a very sophisticated stance of antimodernism. Thomas Bender

Examples of anti-modernist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Due to the anti-modernist policy after the 1930s, scores of paintings were confiscated from museums and institutions and put in special secret repositories, and the idea was to destroy all of them. George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 15 July 2024 The Leonine strategy was in this sense anti-modernist and promoted a paternalistic social ethic. R. R. Reno, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2018

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Word History

First Known Use

1859, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of anti-modernist was in 1859

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“Anti-modernist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-modernist. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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