modernism

Nouns

  • (n) genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres
  • (n) the quality of being current or of the present
    • a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village
    contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernity, modernness,
  • (n) practices typical of contemporary life or thought

Synonyms

contemporaneity contemporaneousness modernity modernness

Words of close approximity

modernise modernist
modernise modernist modernity modernize