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Modernism   /mˈɑdərnˌɪzəm/   Listen
Modernism

noun
1.
Genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres.
2.
The quality of being current or of the present.  Synonyms: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernity, modernness.
3.
Practices typical of contemporary life or thought.





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"Modernism" Quotes from Famous Books



... Socialists of the William Morris type. The mind of William Morris was profoundly reactionary He hated the whole trend of later nineteenth-century modernism with the hatred natural to a man of considerable scholarship and intense aesthetic sensibilities. His mind turned, exactly as Mr. Belloc's turns, to the finished and enriched Normal Social Life of western Europe in the middle ages, ...
— An Englishman Looks at the World • H. G. Wells


Words linked to "Modernism" :   genre, modern, practice, pattern, currentness, currency, modernistic, up-to-dateness, modernist


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