modernism

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres
noun the quality of being current or of the present
noun practices typical of contemporary life or thought

From modern + -ism.

It was eclectic--modernism here, deco there. — The Samurai Strategy, Thomas Hoover
At first it seemed a queer combination of the old fashioned village and a strange modernism. — Astounding Stories, June, 1931, Various
Handsome, black, with his sarcastic, trap-like mouth and iron-grey side-burns, whose favourite amusement was to write controversial letters to the Christian Times, attacking Modernism. — The Blue Castle: a novel, L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

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