- modernism - genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres
--1 is a kind of genre
- 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"
--2 is a kind of currentness, currency, up-to-dateness
- modernism - practices typical of contemporary life or thought
--3 is a kind of practice, pattern
- 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"