Synonyms of modernism

modernism

noun

as in term

a way of saying something that is particular to the present day; a modern speech form

modernisms like "blog" and "life hack"

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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of modernism

The house at 1174 Hillcrest Road was designed in 1958 by architect Rex Lotery and mixes modernism and French Regency style. — Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 16 June 2026

In the years that followed, American landscape painting was shuffled off to storage to make room for modernism, and paintings like Church’s, with their glassy finishes and profuse detail, came to seem the embodiment of fuddy-duddy. — Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2026

Yet her modernism radiated a belief in the harmony between humans and nature. — Air Mail, 13 June 2026

The lens widened further to embrace categories of practice not conventionally regarded as art, most prominently, craft; here, too, the art establishment focused on textiles and ceramics engaged with an existing modernism, as opposed to the 1970s focus on regional and communal networks. — Katy Siegel, Artforum, 2 June 2026