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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The Guggenheim Bilbao will present a major survey show dedicated to Tarsila do Amaral (b. 1886; d. 1973), a key figure of Brazilian modernism whose work is also being featured in Brasil! —

Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025 Lebedev is more in line with the lessons of modernism and postmodernism than literary yarn-weavers like yours truly. —

Boris Fishman, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025 Two new shows have been installed in the museum’s entrance galleries, one focusing on historical modernism and the other on conceptual work. —

Douglas Markowitz, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025 Fresh off Hitchcock’s Psycho, which was released the year prior, cinematographer John L. Russell capably bends the clean lines of mid-century modernism into the jagged and pointed ones of Expressionism. —

Elle Carroll, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for modernism