modernism
['mɑdɚn`ɪzəm]
n. , , 想



modernism
[ noun ]

1. genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres

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2. the quality of being current or of the present

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a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village

3. practices typical of contemporary life or thought

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Modernism \Mod"ern*ism\, n.
1. Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern
usage or mode of expression.

2. 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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]