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antimodern en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + modern.

Meanings

1. Opposed to modernity or modernization
   • The third option is also nervous about modernity but in an antimodern rather than postmodern way, that is, it is alarmed rather than playful […] 2005, John Durham Peters, Courting the Abyss, →ISBN, page 2:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
most antimodern	Degree=Sup		lexicographic
more antimodern	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic

Synonyms

reactionary

Translations (5)

pl antymodernistyczny (opposed to modernity or modernization) · ka არათანამედროვე (opposed to modernity or modernization) · pt antimoderno (opposed to modernity or modernization) · es antimoderno (opposed to modernity or modernization) · it antimoderno (opposed to modernity or modernization)

antimodern en · NOUN

Etymology

From anti- + modern.

Meanings

1. A person opposed to modernity or modernization
   • The antimoderns firmly believe that the West has rationalized and disenchanted the world, that it has truly peopled the social with cold and rational monsters which saturate all of space, that it has definitively transformed the premodern cosmos into a mechanical interaction of pure matters. 2012, Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, page 123:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
antimoderns	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Relateds

unmodern · antimodernism · antimodernist

Translations (3)

pl antymodernistka (a person opposed to modernity or modernization) · pt antimoderno (a person opposed to modernity or modernization) · pl antymodernista (a person opposed to modernity or modernization)