English noun: modernism | |||
1. | modernism (artifact) genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres | ||
Broader (hypernym) | genre | ||
2. | modernism (attribute) the quality of being current or of the present | ||
Samples | A shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village. | ||
Synonyms | contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernity, modernness | ||
Broader (hypernym) | currency, currentness, up-to-dateness | ||
Attribute | modern | ||
3. | modernism (act) practices typical of contemporary life or thought | ||
Broader (hypernym) | pattern, practice | ||