modernism

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Modernism is the movement that broke with tradition in art and design. Early modernism.

It ran roughly from 1900 to the 1960s and covered painting, building, music and writing at once. Modernism in building is the style everybody either loves or wants demolished.

Definitions of modernism

1nounmodernismThe movement that broke with tradition in art and design.C2
“The whole estate was modernism at its most confident.”

modernism is a movement.

Where it comes from

Proto-Indo-European
*med-
Latin
modernus
Middle French
moderne
English
modern
English, today
modernism

Built from

modus · Latin — measure

From modern + -ism. modern comes from Middle French moderne, from Latin modernus; from Latin modo (“just now”), originally ablative of modus (“measure”); hence, by measure, "just now". See also mode.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

modernism in the wild

Debate about the timeline of modernism continues, with some scholars arguing that it evolved into late modernism or high modernism.
Modernism
Pope Pius X saw modernism as a universal threat which required a global reaction.
Modernism in the Catholic Church
Liberal Christianity, also known as liberal theology and historically as Christian modernism, is a movement that interprets Christian teaching by prioritizing modern knowledge, science and ethics.
Liberal Christianity
Not all critics agree that the stage called modernism is over or even near the end.
Late modernism
There is no agreement that all art after modernism is post-modern.
Late modernism

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Related words

the modus family

model modern

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