noun [U]
1 modern ideas or methods
2 a style and movement in art, architecture and literature popular in the middle of the 20th century in which modern ideas, methods and materials were used rather than traditional ones
comparePOSTMODERNISM
modernist adjective [onlybeforenoun]:
modernist art
modernist noun
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