modernism

English

Etymology

modern + -ism

Noun

modernism (countable and uncountable, plural modernisms)

  1. (uncountable) Modern or contemporary ideas, thought, practices, etc.
  2. (countable) Anything that is characteristic of modernity.
  3. Any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century.
    • 2004 May, Thomas Mallon, “Hoosiers”, in The Atlantic:
      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.
  4. 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.

Derived terms

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French modernisme.

Noun

modernism n (plural modernisme)

  1. modernism

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

modern + -ism

Noun

modernism c

  1. modernism

Declension

Declension of modernism 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative modernism modernismen
Genitive modernisms modernismens
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