mod‧ern‧is‧m /ˈmɒdənɪz
əm $ 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 [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲