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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(uncountable) Modern or contemporary ideas, thought, practices, etc..
Penrod is so referential as to be almost a work of postmodernism—assuming Tarkington could have imagined such a thing with modernism itself just beginning to steamroll over him.
Use modernism when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Modernism means (uncountable) Modern or contemporary ideas, thought, practices, etc..
Common synonyms include contemporaneousness, contemporaneity, modernity, modernness.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Penrod is so referential as to be almost a work of postmodernism—assuming Tarkington could have imagined such a thing with modernism itself just beginning to steamroll over him.
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