Definitions for modernism

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modernism mod·ern·ism

Spelling: [mod-er-niz-uh m]

IPA: /ˈmɒd ərˌnɪz əm/

Modernism is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 496 anagrams from letters in modernism (deimmnors).

Definitions for modernism

noun

1. modern character, tendencies, or values; adherence to or sympathy with what is modern.
2. a modern usage or characteristic.
3. (initial capital letter) Theology. the movement in Roman Catholic thought that sought to interpret the teachings of the Church in the light of philosophic and scientific conceptions prevalent in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: condemned by Pope Pius X in 1907. the liberal theological tendency in Protestantism in the 20th century.
4. (sometimes initial capital letter) a deliberate philosophical and practical estrangement or divergence from the past in the arts and literature occurring especially in the course of the 20th century and taking form in any of various innovative movements and styles.

Origin of modernism

First recorded in 1730-40; modern + -ism

Examples for modernism

In the 1930s, MoMA did a big show on the Bauhaus, and they worked very hard to say that modernism was a style.

Were they more interested in modernism than the American public at large?

But now all is crumbling before the poisonous onslaught of modernism.

We know him well: Xenophon's modernism comes out in these things.

If modernism was going to be acceptable, its leftist leanings had to be gotten rid of.

In the early years, modernism had a kind of progressive, even socialist bent to it.

He bowed his head, revolving in his mind the definite charge of "modernism."

Too angry to deny the convenient charge of "modernism," he sought the street.

And so the Jewishness of modernism was written out of the history in a way.

Consequently the charge of "modernism" fell like a bolt from a clear sky.