noun Date: 1737 a practice, usage, or expression peculiar to modern times, a tendency in theology to accommodate traditional religious teaching to contemporary thought and especially to devalue supernatural elements, modern artistic or literary philosophy and practice, modernist noun or adjective modernistic adjective
MODERNISM
Meaning of MODERNISM in English
Merriam Webster. Explanatory English dictionary Merriam Webster. Толковый словарь английского языка Мерриам-Уэбстер. 2012