Definition of 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
