"modernism" in the noun sense
1. modernism
genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres
2. modernity, modernness, modernism, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness
the quality of being current or of the present
"a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village"
3. modernism
practices typical of contemporary life or thought
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