English Explanatory Dictionary

high modernism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A form of modernity prevalent during the 1950s and 1960s, characterized by an unfaltering confidence in science and technology as means to reorder the social and natural world.

Word forms

high modernism

Synonyms

high modernity
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