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modernism en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English modern Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English modernism From modern + -ism.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Modern or contemporary ideas, thought, practices, etc.
2. (countable) Anything that is characteristic of modernity.
3. (countable, uncountable) Any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century.
   • Penrod is so referential as to be almost a work of postmodernism—assuming Tarkington could have imagined such a thing with modernism itself just beginning to steamroll over him. 2004 May, Thomas Mallon, “Hoosiers”, in The Atlantic:
4. (countable, uncountable) A religious movement in the early 20th century, condemned as heretical by Pope Pius X, which tried to reconcile Roman Catholic dogma with modern science and philosophy.

Forms

Deriveds

ultramodernism · protomodernism · metamodernism · antimodernism · high modernism · postmodernism · supermodernism · anamodernism · hypermodernism · remodernism · neomodernism · comodernism · ecomodernism · modernist

Translations (25)

uk модерні́зм (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century) · nb modernisme (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century) · nl modernisme (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century) · yi מאָדערניזם (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century) · fr modernisme (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century) · el νεωτερισμός (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century) · es modernismo (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century) · cmn 現代主義 /现代主义 (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century) · pt modernismo (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century) · ru модерни́зм (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century) · hi आधुनिकतावाद (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century) · nn modernisme (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century) · fi modernismi (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century) · de Modernismus (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century) · nrf modèrnisme (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century) · mi angahoutanga (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century) · pl modernizm (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century) · cmn 現代派 /现代派 (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century) · ja モダニズム (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century) · be мадэрні́зм (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century) · ml ആധുനികത (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century) · gl modernismo (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century) · ast modernismu (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century) · it modernismo (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century) · ca modernisme (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century)