modernism

1 :  a practice, usage, or expression peculiar to modern times such modernisms as “blog,” “bromance,” and “steampunk”

2 often capitalized :  a tendency in theology to accommodate traditional religious teaching to contemporary thought and especially to devalue supernatural elements

3 :  modern artistic or literary philosophy and practice; especially :  a self-conscious break with the past and a search for new forms of expression extols the … modernism that laid the foundation of all twentieth-century design — Jeffrey Simpson