modernism
nounEtymology From modern + -ism.
1
Modern or contemporary ideas, thought, practices, etc.
2
Anything that is characteristic of modernity.
3
Any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century.
- Penrod is so referential as to be almost a work of postmodernism—assuming Tarkington could have imagined such a thing with modernism itself just beginning to steamroll over him.2004 May, Thomas Mallon, “Hoosiers”, in The Atlantic:
4
A religious movement in the early 20th century, condemned as heretical by Pope Pius X, which tried to reconcile Roman Catholic dogma with modern science and philosophy.