unmodernize

verb

unmodernize

verb

Etymology From un- + modernize.

1

Uncommon To demodernize.

  • Though the first in effect unmodernizes the modern while the second stresses the unmodernity of the past, both look away from the new world of production by way of denaturalizing contemporary conditions ...1998, Douglas Mao, Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 146:
Derived terms
unmodernization

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