modernism

英 ['mɒd(ə)nɪz(ə)m] 美['mɑdɚnɪzəm]

• n. 现代主义；现代思想；现代作风

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

2. the quality of being current or of the present;

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

3. practices typical of contemporary life or thought