Definitions of modernism [ˈmɒd ərˌnɪz əm]

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Definition of 'modernism'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) modernism
modern character, tendencies, or values.

2.  modernism
a modern usage or characteristic.

3.  modernism
(cap.)

4.  modernism
the movement in Roman Catholic thought that interpreted the teachings of the Church in the light of modern philosophic and scientific thought.

5.  modernism
the liberal theological tendency in 20th-century Protestantism.

6.  modernism
(sometimes cap.) estrangement or divergence from the past in the arts and literature occurring esp. in the course of the 20th century and taking form in any of various innovative movements and styles.

Etymology: (1730–40)

Definition of 'modernism'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) modernism
genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres

2. (noun) modernity, modernness, modernism, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness
the quality of being current or of the present
"a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village"

3. (noun) modernism
practices typical of contemporary life or thought

Definition of 'modernism'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) modernism
modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression

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