modernism
pronunciation
How to pronounce modernism in British English:
UK [ˈmɒdənɪzəm]
How to pronounce modernism in American English:
US [ˈmɑdərnɪzəm]
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- Noun:
- genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres
- the quality of being current or of the present
- practices typical of contemporary life or thought
Word Origin
- modernism (n.)
- 1737, "deviation from the ancient and classical manner" [Johnson, who calls it "a word invented by Swift"], from modern + -ism. From 1830 as "modern ways and styles." Used in theology since 1901. As a movement in the arts (away from classical or traditional modes), from 1929.
Example
- 1. The handbook was one of modernism 's secret muses .
- 2. These by no means add up to modernism .
- 3. If not modernism , then what is china 's story ?
- 4. To be sure , modernism had its illustrious intellectual ancestry .
- 5. Yet its essence is not and can not be modernism .