anti-modernist

adjective

an·ti-mod·ern·ist

ˌan-tē-ˈmä-dər-nist,

ˌan-tī-

variants or less commonly antimodernist

: opposed to the values of modernism or modernity

… mixture of nativist ideology, anti-modernist sentiment, political isolationism, and frankly stated racialism …—

Hilton Kramer

Prohibition, like nativism and antisemitism, tapped into deeply rooted antimodernist trends in American life; it attempted to turn back the cultural clock …—

Jonathan D. Sarna

anti-modernist noun

or less commonly antimodernist

The antimodernists prevailed, perhaps fortunately, given the deplorable standards of new French architecture. —

Gerald Clarke

anti-modernism noun

or less commonly antimodernism

ˌan-tē-ˈmä-dər-ni-zəm,

ˌan-tī-

This left-wing anti-modernism is interesting or not, depending on your point of view. —

Stephen Holmes

Rather than assume the postmodern position, he has been willing to take up a very sophisticated stance of antimodernism. —

Thomas Bender

Examples of anti-modernist in a Sentence

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Due to the anti-modernist policy after the 1930s, scores of paintings were confiscated from museums and institutions and put in special secret repositories, and the idea was to destroy all of them. —

George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 15 July 2024 The Leonine strategy was in this sense anti-modernist and promoted a paternalistic social ethic. —

R. R. Reno, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2018

Word History

First Known Use

1859, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of anti-modernist was in 1859

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“Anti-modernist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-modernist. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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