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单词 modernism
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modernismn.

Brit. /ˈmɒdn̩ɪz(ə)m/, /ˈmɒdənɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈmɑdərnˌɪz(ə)m/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: modern adj., -ism suffix.
Etymology: < modern adj. + -ism suffix. Compare French modernisme (1879 in sense 4, 1908 in sense 3), Italian modernismo (1883 in sense 4, 1904 in sense 3), Spanish modernismo (1744 in sense ‘modernity’, 1911 in sense 3; compare Modernismo n.), Catalan modernisme (compare Modernisme n.), Portuguese modernismo (1873 in general sense); also Danish modernisme (1853 or earlier), Swedish modernism (end of the 19th cent. with reference to culture), German Modernismus (1908 or earlier in sense 3; compare modernismus n.). Compare also earlier modernist n. and adj., and earlier modernity n., modernness n.
1. A usage, mode of expression, peculiarity of style, etc., characteristic of modern times. Later more generally: an innovative or distinctively modern feature. Frequently in plural.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] > modernity > something that is modern
modern1735
modernism1737
modernity1753
contemporary1962
1737 J. Swift Let. to Pope 23 July in Lett. Dr. Swift (1741) 252 The corruption of English by those Scribblers who send us over their trash in Prose and Verse, with abominable curtailings and quaint modernisms.
1796 Lady's Mag. Apr. 149/2 The ‘modernisms’, if so they may be termed, are innumerable. The word ‘crisis’ occurs more than once,—a word, we will boldly affirm, never used by Shakespeare.
a1864 N. Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1879) II. 77 Such modernisms as astral lamps.
1869 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast (rev. ed.) 440 It [sc. the Mission Dolores] has a strangely solitary aspect, enhanced by its surroundings of the most uncongenial, rapidly growing modernisms.
1873 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) viii. 449 The last of these [sc. ‘its’] is a comparative modernism in the language.
1896 Catholic World Mar. 801 To-day, notwithstanding the encroaching march of modernisms of the dying nineteenth century, the fir and spruce are as green..as in the days of the good Abbé Sigogne.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 127/2 Our present scheme, so wholly lacking in the startling modernisms of up-to-date decorating, seemed..to make our future plans sound like a painter's nightmare.
1965 Listener 18 Nov. 803/1 Such typical modernisms as snog, nosh, [etc.].
1985 D. Lowenthal Past is Foreign Country (1988) v. 251 Deliberate modernisms of dress and gesture [in Pre-Raphaelite paintings] emphasize the pastness of their archaistic scenes.
2. Modern character or quality of thought, expression, technique, etc.; sympathy with or affinity for what is modern.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] > modernity
modernity1635
modernness1653
modernism1772
actualité1839
up-to-dateness1891
up-to-datism1893
topicality1904
presentism1916
up-to-the-minuteness1940
1772 J.-N. de Sauseuil Anal. French Orthogr. 17 They give the Hebrew reading a character of modernism inconsistent with the real system of pronunciation which should be found in so antique and original a language as they would have it to be.
1803 R. Southey Let. 9 June in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) II. 212 In all these modern ballads there is a modernism of thought and language-turns to me very perceptible.
1806 J. Lingard Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church I. ii. 67 The modernism of its language.
1830 H. N. Coleridge Introd. Greek Poets 131 The women of the Odyssey discover occasionally a modernism and a want of..simplicity.
1861 F. Metcalfe Oxonian in Iceland (1867) iv. 57 And somehow this very modernism begets a desire for reverting now and then to old things, old people [etc.].
1887 Westm. Rev. June 348 The Roman Church and the American Republic... The one typifying mediævalism, the other illustrating with tolerable fidelity the spirit of modernism.
1923 J. H. Eckenrode Jefferson Davis (1924) ii. 24 The modernism of the North and the Nordicism of the South came more and more into conflict.
1937 O. St. J. Gogarty As I was going down Sackville St. 30 The fallacy of all this modernism and Bolshevic ‘philosophy’.
1990 N. Baker Room Temperature vi. 46 Once our tray tables had exemplified the state-of-the-art Murphy-bed modernism of a design sense energized by the war.
3. Theology. Frequently in form Modernism. A tendency or movement towards modifying traditional beliefs and doctrines in accordance with modern ideas and scholarship; spec. a movement of this kind in the Roman Catholic Church around the beginning of the 20th cent.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > systems of theology > [noun] > Rationalistic
new light1649
rationalisma1732
neologism1827
neology1830
neologianism1846
modernism1878
neo-modernism1973
1878 Princeton Rev. July–Dec. 136 No wonder..if the boldest and most honest among the leaders of modernism do not any longer shrink from the..consequences of their own principles.
1900 G. Tyrrell Let. 3 Sept. in T. M. Loome Liberal Catholicism (1979) 30 The tension between the old & the young, between those who yield nothing to Modernism & can see no good in it, and those who would yield everything & can see no evil in it, is very acute.
1907 tr. Pius X Encyclical Let. Doctrines Modernists 15 If we..seek to know how the believer, according to Modernism, is marked off from the Philosopher, it must be observed [etc.].
1915 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics VIII. 763/1 Modernism is the name given by the papal encyclical which condemned it to a complex of movements within the Roman Communion, all alike inspired by a desire to bring the tradition of Christian belief and practice into closer relation with the intellectual habits and social aspirations of our own time.
1927 H. D. A. Major Eng. Modernism 18 In the Roman Church Modernism is opposed to Mediævalism; in the English Church, Modernism, as in Holland, is opposed to Traditionalism; in America Modernism is opposed to Fundamentalism.
1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 1294/2 Modernism has not been a significant position among southern theologians.
4. Any of various movements in art, architecture, literature, etc., generally characterized by a deliberate break with classical and traditional forms or methods of expression; the work or ideas of the adherents of such a movement.In early use usually contemptuous. Now often used spec. with reference to the early 20th cent., esp. in the visual arts.
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society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > specific movement or period
cinquecento1762
classicality1784
romanticism1821
classicism1827
Renaissance1836
classicalism1840
Queen Anne1863
classic1864
renascence1868
classical1875
modernism1879
New Romanticism1885
Colonial Revival1887
shogun1889
super-realism1890
verism1892
neoclassicism1893
veritism1894
social realism1898
camerata1900
peasantism1903
proto-Renaissance1903
Biedermeier1905
expressionism1908
futurism1909
Georgianism1911
Dada1918
Dadaism1918
German expressionism1920
expressionismus1925
Negro Renaissance1925
super-realism1925
settecento1926
surrealism1927
Neue Sachlichkeit1929
Sachlichkeit1930
neo-Gothicism1932
socialist realism1933
modernismus1934
Harlem Renaissance1940
organicism1945
avant-gardism1950
nouvelle vague1959
bricolage1960
kitchen-sinkery1964
black art1965
neo-modernism1966
Yuan1969
conceptualism1970
sound art1972
pre-modernism1976
Afrofuturism1993
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [noun] > other styles
transition1730
pasticcio1750
symmetrophobia1809
rococo1835
flamboyantism1846
collegiate Gothic1851
vernacular architecture1857
Neo-Grec1867
modernism1879
wedding-cake1879
Queen Anne1883
Colonial Revival1889
Chicago school1893
Dutch colonial1894
English colonial1894
monumentalism1897
vernacular1910
international style1911
Churrigueresque1913
postmodernism1914
prairie style1914
rationalism1918
lavatory style1919
functionalism1924
Mudéjar1927
façadism1933
open plan1938
Wrenaissance1942
pseudo1945
brutalism1953
open planning1958
neo-Liberty1959
Queen Annery1966
Jugendstil1967
moderne1968
strip architecture1976
high-tech1978
1879 S. Colvin Art & Criticism in Appletons' Jrnl. Oct. 323/2 We shall certainly not join those who..declare that no other art is genuine..than that which devotes itself..to the literal rendering of facts without compromise or embellishment... Without joining the fanatics of realism and modernism we can at least welcome their experiments.
1908 R. A. Scott-James Modernism & Romance vii. 109 The novelist attempts to give to each note on a flute..a significance which is measured only by its effect upon character. This is ‘modernism’ with a vengeance.
1922 Musical Courier (N.Y.) 2 Feb. 7/1 As to what characteristic differentiates modernism from the music of the latest past..it depends not so much upon the chords used as upon their progression or resolution.
1929 H. R. Hitchcock Mod. Archit. xvii. 205 A city [sc. New York], whose ‘modernism’ consists in copying the poorest French models of the New Tradition.
1948 Life June 103 Emily Genauer, New York critic and no foe of modernism, lambasted the juries which chose the winners.
1961 Listener 23 Nov. 848/1 The American modernism introduced by Mr. T. S. Eliot, following Mr. Ezra Pound.
1996 LSE Mag. Winter 26/3 The late Douglas Stephen, an architect whose quiet commitment to Modernism influenced several generations of British designers and critics.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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