Noun: modernism 'mó-du(r),ni-zum
- Genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres
"Picasso's work is often associated with modernism in art"
- Practices typical of contemporary life or thought
"The modernism of the building's design contrasted with the surrounding historical architecture"
- The quality of being current or of the present
"a shopping mall would instil a spirit of modernism into this village";
- modernity, modernness, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness
Derived forms: modernisms
See also: modern
Type of: currency, currentness, genre, pattern, practice, up-to-dateness
Encyclopedia: Modernism, Catholic