anti-modernist

adjective

an·​ti-mod·​ern·​ist

ˌan-tē-ˈmä-dər-nist,

ˌan-tī- 

variants or less commonly antimodernist

: opposed to the values of modernism or modernity

… mixture of nativist ideology, anti-modernist sentiment, political isolationism, and frankly stated racialism …

—Hilton Kramer

Prohibition, like nativism and antisemitism, tapped into deeply rooted antimodernist trends in American life; it attempted to turn back the cultural clock …

—Jonathan D. Sarna

anti-modernist noun

or less commonly antimodernist

The antimodernists prevailed, perhaps fortunately, given the deplorable standards of new French architecture.

—Gerald Clarke

anti-modernism noun

or less commonly antimodernism

ˌan-tē-ˈmä-dər-ni-zəm,

ˌan-tī- 

This left-wing anti-modernism is interesting or not, depending on your point of view.

—Stephen Holmes

Rather than assume the postmodern position, he has been willing to take up a very sophisticated stance of antimodernism.

—Thomas Bender

Word History

First Known Use

1859, in the meaning defined above