modernism

noun

mod·ern·ism ˈmä-dər-ˌni-zəm

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: a practice, usage, or expression peculiar to modern times

such modernisms as "blog," "bromance," and "steampunk"

often capitalized : a tendency in theology to accommodate traditional religious teaching to contemporary thought and especially to devalue supernatural elements

: modern artistic or literary philosophy and practice

especially : a self-conscious break with the past and a search for new forms of expression

extols the … modernism that laid the foundation of all twentieth-century design —

Jeffrey Simpson

modernist

ˈmä-dər-nist

noun or adjective

modernistic

ˌmä-dər-ˈni-stik

adjective

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As at Tornabuoni, the inspirations and individual pieces of furniture that enrich the South Florida house share a classical aesthetic that Kahan and Howard refracted through a prism of modernism. —

Andrew Sessa, Robb Report, 1 Dec. 2024 Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy by Alex Mar The Little Review, the radical and short-lived magazine helmed by Jane Heap and Margaret Anderson, was a vanguard of modernism in American culture. —

The New York Review of Books, 29 Nov. 2024 Street scenes, meanwhile, could only be shot with extreme caution, and usually only scenes involving the hijab, the veil for women whose removal has become a symbol in the fight for liberation and modernism. —

Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Nov. 2024 Verbatim: Fredric Jameson Marxist cultural critic Fredric Jameson offered a philosophy of late capitalism that gave us a language for talking about globalization and the end of modernism. —

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