mod‧ern‧is‧m /ˈmɒdənɪzəm $ ˈmɑːdər-/ noun [uncountable]
[Word Family: noun: modernity, modernization, modernism, modernist, modernity, modernizer, modernization; adjective: modern, modernist, modernistic; verb: modernize]
a style of art, building etc that was popular especially from the 1940s to the 1960s, in which artists used simple shapes and modern artificial materials ⇒ post-modernism:
the rise of modernism in Paris
—modernist adjective, noun [countable]:
the modernist school

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