modernism
(noun)
noun
1. genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres
Definition categories: man–made, genre
2. the quality of being current or of the present
- a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village
Similar word(s): contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernity, modernness
Definition categories: attribute, currency, currentness
3. practices typical of contemporary life or thought