modernism
noun
modern character, tendencies, or values; adherence to or sympathy with what is modern.
modernisms
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pluralof modernism.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The score for “X” traffics in multiple modernisms.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2022
Instead, they look to South America and Concrete art, with its cross-fertilization of imported European and indigenous modernisms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2018
The view that there were many modernisms is now commonplace.
From Economist ● Oct. 26, 2017
There he produced a stream of paintings that synthesized Cubism and other European modernisms, mixed in non-Western motifs and mysterious symbols and culminated in his lusty, elegiac German Officer paintings.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2014
It has, however, been somewhat carelessly done, for several modernisms have crept into the language.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Thomas Cruttwell
