1. Genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres 
2. The quality of being current or of the present
   - modernity, modernness, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness 
3. Practices typical of contemporary life or thought

Derived forms: modernisms

See also: modern, modernist, modernistic

Type of: currency, currentness, genre, pattern, practice, up-to-dateness

Encyclopedia: Modernism

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