Antimodern
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Antimodern is an adjective meaning Opposed to modernity or modernization.
Meaning
Opposed to modernity or modernization.
More Meanings
- A person opposed to modernity or modernization
Example Sentences
The third option is also nervous about modernity but in an antimodern rather than postmodern way, that is, it is alarmed rather than playful […]
The antimoderns firmly believe that the West has rationalized and disenchanted the world, that it has truly peopled the social with cold and rational monsters which saturate all of space, that it has definitively transformed the premodern cosmos into a mechanical interaction of pure matters.
Word Forms
- antimoderns
Synonyms for antimodern
Depending on context, synonyms include reactionary.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include antimodernist, transmodern, ultramodernistic, antitraditional, antimodular, pseudomodernist.
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