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What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.
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Meaning of "modernism" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MODERNISM

modernism  [ˈmɒdəˌnɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MODERNISM

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pronoun
preposition
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Modernism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MODERNISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Modernism

Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among the factors that shaped Modernism was the development of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities, followed then by the horror of World War I. Modernism also rejected the certainty of Enlightenment thinking, and many modernists rejected religious belief. Modernism, in general, includes the activities and creations of those who felt the traditional forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, philosophy, social organization, and activities of daily life were becoming outdated in the new economic, social, and political environment of an emerging fully industrialized world. The poet Ezra Pound's 1934 injunction to "Make it new!" was the touchstone of the movement's approach towards what it saw as the now obsolete culture of the past. Nevertheless, its innovations, like the stream-of-consciousness novel, twelve-tone music and abstract art, all had precursors in the 19th century.

Definition of modernism in the English dictionary

The first definition of modernism in the dictionary is modern tendencies, characteristics, thoughts, etc, or the support of these. Other definition of modernism is something typical of contemporary life or thought. Modernism is also the movement at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries that sought to adapt doctrine to the supposed requirements of modern thought.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MODERNISM


Anglicanism
ˈæŋɡlɪkəˌnɪzəm
antagonism
ænˈtæɡəˌnɪzəm
creationism
kriːˈeɪʃəˌnɪzəm
exhibitionism
ˌɛksɪˈbɪʃəˌnɪzəm
expansionism
ɪkˈspænʃəˌnɪzəm
expressionism
ɪkˈsprɛʃəˌnɪzəm
hedonism
ˈhiːdəˌnɪzəm
humanism
ˈhjuːməˌnɪzəm
humanitarianism
hjuːˌmænɪˈtɛərɪəˌnɪzəm
impressionism
ɪmˈprɛʃəˌnɪzəm
isolationism
ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃəˌnɪzəm
mechanism
ˈmɛkəˌnɪzəm
microorganism
ˌmaɪkrəʊˈɔːɡəˌnɪzəm
organism
ˈɔːɡəˌnɪzəm
reductionism
rɪˈdʌkʃəˌnɪzəm
Satanism
ˈseɪtəˌnɪzəm
shamanism
ˈʃæməˌnɪzəm
urbanism
ˈɜːbəˌnɪzəm
vegetarianism
ˌvɛdʒɪˈtɛərɪəˌnɪzəm
Zionism
ˈzaɪəˌnɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MODERNISM

modern jazz
modern language
modern languages
modern man
modern pentathlon
modern sequence dancing
moderne
moderniser
modernist
modernistic
modernistically
modernities
modernity
modernization
modernize
modernizer
modernly
modernness

WORDS THAT END LIKE MODERNISM

abolitionism
communism
coping mechanism
determinism
equestrianism
Exchange Rate Mechanism
feminism
Hellenism
hooliganism
hypermodernism
International Modernism
Leninism
New Urbanism
northernism
paganism
post-modernism
saturnism
southernism
ultramodernism
westernism

Synonyms and antonyms of modernism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «modernism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MODERNISM

Find out the translation of modernism to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of modernism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «modernism» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

现代主义
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

modernismo
570 millions of speakers

English

modernism
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आधुनिकता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحداثة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

модернизм
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

modernismo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আধুনিকতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

modernisme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Modenisme
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Modernismus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

現代主義
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

모더니즘
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Modernisme
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

canh tân chủ nghia
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நவீனத்துவத்தை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आधुनिकता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

modernlik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

modernismo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

modernizm
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

модернізм
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

modernism
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μοντερνισμού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

modernisme
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

modernismen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

modernismen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of modernism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MODERNISM»

The term «modernism» is quite widely used and occupies the 34.871 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MODERNISM» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about modernism

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10 QUOTES WITH «MODERNISM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word modernism.
1
Elias Canetti
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
2
Arthur Erickson
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
3
James Fenton
Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.
4
James Fenton
The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term 'heightened speech.'
5
Peter Gay
What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.
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Peter Gay
My definition of modernism took a while to develop.
7
Robert Hewison
Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
8
Phillip E. Johnson
Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.
9
Leon Krier
If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.
10
Christian Lacroix
French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MODERNISM»

Discover the use of modernism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to modernism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Modernism: A Cultural History
"In this study aimed at a general and student audience, Tim Armstrong seeks to define modernism not only by its aesthetics and literary genres but also by its links with broader cultural areas in which the 'modern' is implicated and debated ...
Tim Armstrong, 2005
2
Modernism
In this comprehensive survey, Richard Weston traces the course of Modernism from its beginnings to its contemporary manifestations.
Richard Weston, 2001
3
Modernism
This work provides an authoritative analysis of the most important literary innovations of the last 100 years, which explains the pan-European origins of the radical literary changes which occurred in the novel, poetry and drama.
Peter Childs, 2000
4
Modernism: The Lure of Heresy : from Baudelaire to Beckett ...
Traces the rise of Modernism in the arts from its inception in the mid-nineteenth century to its end in the wake of the development of Pop Art, analyzing its influences on the fields of literature, poetry, music, and other art forms and ...
Peter Gay, 2008
5
The Making of Buddhist Modernism
In this book, David McMahan charts the development of this "Buddhist modernism." McMahan examines and analyzes a wide range of popular and scholarly writings produced by Buddhists around the globe.
David L. McMahan Associate Professor of Religious Studies Franklin & Marshall College, 2008
6
Re-covering Modernism: Pulps, Paperbacks, and the Prejudice ...
That modernist literature was not the exclusive purview of a cultural elite but was available to a mass public via popular magazines and pulp paperbacks, is the subject of David M. Earle's nuanced exploration of the publishing and marketing ...
David M. Earle, 2009
7
Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture, and Politics in ...
The book shows how German nationalism and later National Socialism created what Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister, called the 'steel-like romanticism of the twentieth century'.
Herf, 1984
8
Making Modernism: Picasso and the Creation of the Market for ...
The book is based on and quotes generously from previously unpublished correspondence between Picasso and dealers, collectors, and museum curators.
Michael C. FitzGerald, 1996
9
Modernism
The two-volume work Modernism has been awarded the prestigious 2008 MSA Book Prize! Modernism has constituted one of the most prominent fields of literary studies for decades.
Ástráður Eysteinsson, Vivian Liska, 2007
10
American Modernism (1910-1945)
This engaging, illustrated guide to the modernist movement in American literature provides a wealth of information on American modernism, the Lost Generation, modernism in the American novel, the Harlem Renaissance, modernism in poetry and ...
Roger Lathbury, Jerry Phillips, Michael Anesko, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MODERNISM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term modernism is used in the context of the following news items.
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Loud, over-the-top and colourful: Memphis, the Italian postmodernist …
The 1980s Italian postmodernist movement – which thumbed its nose at function-obsessed modernism with loud, over-the-top aesthetics – has ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
2
Don't be intimi-dated
... remarkable for the way it vanished into a still greater catastrophe, the world of Weimar represents modernism in its most vivid manifestation.” «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jul 15»
3
Monocle 24 Visit Richard Neutra's Residences in Los Angeles
Though Modernism has often been criticised for imposing universal rules on people and areas, it was Neutra's intense client focus that won him ... «ArchDaily, Jul 15»
4
Week ahead: Music, theater, art, and more
ALFRED MAURER: AT THE VANGUARD OF MODERNISM A retrospective of the fascinating career of the underrated American modernist. «Boston Globe, Jul 15»
5
Stan Douglas at Imma: Every picture reveals a thousand details
He is consistently drawn to the failure of utopian schemes, from the grand project of modernism to, more prosaically, the early days of disco. «Irish Times, Jul 15»
6
Berry, NSW now has a motorway but has lost its character
Modernism, in scientising everything, made traffic into a branch of fluid dynamics – hence all the flow and viscosity metaphors. But the analogy ... «Brisbane Times, Jul 15»
7
Spokane Style The buildings and architects who shaped the Lilac City
For a time, three former students of modernism founder Walter Gropius — Royal McClure, Bruce Walker and Bill Trogdon — were successfully ... «Pacific Northwest Inlander, Jul 15»
8
MOLAA Displays First Major Commitment to Revised Mission with …
... at MOLAA to show works by Latino and Chicano artists, the Pacific Standard Time exhibition MEX/LA: Mexican Modernism(s) in Los Angeles, ... «Long Beach Post, Jul 15»
9
Irakere, Ronnie Scott's, London — review
Elsewhere there was a long workout in compound time that featured the supple modernism of tenor saxophonist Ariel Bringuez — the theme of ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
10
How ballet has been transformed by choreographers from …
For a generation of ballet choreographers, the choice seemed to be between embracing post-modernism and risking looking old-fashioned. «The Independent, Jul 15»

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