Definition of Modernism. Meaning of Modernism. Synonyms of Modernism

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Definition of Modernism

Modernism
Modernism Mod"ern*ism, n. Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.
Modernism
Modernism Mod"ern*ism, n. Certain methods and tendencies which, in Biblical questions, apologetics, and the theory of dogma, in the endeavor to reconcile the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church with the conclusions of modern science, replace the authority of the church by purely subjective criteria; -- so called officially by Pope Pius X.

Meaning of Modernism from wikipedia

- Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience...
- Anti-modernism may refer to: Modernism#Criticism of late modernity Anti-modernization Anti-Modernism in the Catholic church Oath Against Modernism, 1910...
- traditional ways of writing in both poetry and prose fiction writing. Modernism experimented with literary form and expression, as exemplified by Ezra...
- cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break from modernism. They have in common the conviction that it is no longer possible to rely...
- In music, modernism is an aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th...
- American modernism, much like the modernism movement in general, is a trend of philosophical thought arising from the widespread changes in culture and...
- Tropical Modernism, or Tropical Modern is a style of architecture that merges modernist architecture principles with tropical vernacular traditions, emerging...
- Buddhist modernism (also referred to as modern Buddhism, modernist Buddhism, Neo-Buddhism, and Protestant Buddhism) are new movements based on modern...
- historians sometimes label Latin American modernism as "tropical modernism". This reflects architects who adapted modernism to the tropical climate as well as...
- Islamic modernism is a movement that has been described as "the first Muslim ideological response to the Western cultural challenge", attempting to reconcile...