ALL meanings of modernism
mod·ern·ism
M m - noun modernism Modern character or quality of thought, expression, or technique. 1
- noun modernism modern character, tendencies, or values; adherence to or sympathy with what is modern. 1
- noun modernism a modern usage or characteristic. 1
- noun modernism (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. 1
- noun modernism (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. 1
- noun modernism 20th-century art movement 1
- uncountable noun modernism Modernism was a movement in the arts in the first half of the twentieth century that rejected traditional values and techniques, and emphasized the importance of individual experience. 0
- noun modernism modern tendencies, characteristics, thoughts, etc, or the support of these 0
- noun modernism something typical of contemporary life or thought 0
- noun modernism a 20th-century divergence in the arts from previous traditions, esp in architecture 0
- noun modernism the movement at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries that sought to adapt doctrine to the supposed requirements of modern thought 0
- noun modernism modern practices, trends, ideas, etc., or sympathy with any of these 0
- noun modernism an instance of this; a modern idiom, practice, or usage 0
- noun modernism any of several movements variously attempting to redefine Biblical and Christian dogma and traditional teachings in the light of modern science, historical research, etc.: condemned in the Roman Catholic Church in 1907 as a heresy 0
- noun modernism the early 20th-cent. movement or trend in which certain artists and writers, esp. those (as Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Picasso) of the period between WWI and WWII, broke with established traditions and sought new modes of expression 0