modernism

/mˈɑdɚnˌɪzəm/ · 4 syllables

Meaning

noun

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
   “a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village”
3. practices typical of contemporary life or thought

Synonyms for modernism

• modernity
• modernness
• contemporaneity
• contemporaneousness

Words that rhyme with modernism

• mechanism
• absolutism
• antagonism
• nationalism
• sensationalism
• anachronism
• criticism
• dynamism
• empiricism
• formalism
• humanism
• imperialism
• individualism
• nihilism
• pluralism
• romanticism
• separatism
• stigmatism
• symbolism
• alcoholism
• astigmatism
• catechism
• chauvinism
• collectivism
• communism
• consumerism
• despotism
• egoism
• egotism
• electromagnetism