Modernism

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Modernism \Mod"ern*ism\, n.
     1. Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern
        usage or mode of expression.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Certain methods and tendencies which, in Biblical


        questions, apologetics, and the theory of dogma, in the
        endeavor to reconcile the doctrines of the Roman Catholic
        Church with the conclusions of modern science, replace the
        authority of the church by purely subjective criteria; --
        so called officially by Pope Pius X.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  modernism
       n 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" [syn: {modernity}, {modernness}, {contemporaneity},
           {contemporaneousness}]
       3: practices typical of contemporary life or thought