Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun modernism

3 senses of modernism

Sense 1
modernism -- (genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres)
       => genre -- (a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique)

Sense 2
modernity, modernness, modernism, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness -- (the quality of being current or of the present; "a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village")
       => currentness, currency, up-to-dateness -- (the property of belonging to the present time; "the currency of a slang term")

Sense 3
modernism -- (practices typical of contemporary life or thought)
       => practice, pattern -- (a customary way of operation or behavior; "it is their practice to give annual raises"; "they changed their dietary pattern")