1. (

• modernism

) genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres ;

2. (

• modernity ,
• modernness ,
• modernism ,
• contemporaneity ,
• contemporaneousness

) the quality of being current or of the present; "a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village" ;

3. (

• modernism

) practices typical of contemporary life or thought ;