Pseudomodernist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Pseudomodernist is an adjective meaning Having a modernist or postmodernist appearance but not having the associated qualities.
Meaning
Having a modernist or postmodernist appearance but not having the associated qualities.
Example Sentences
More than ever, architecture seems to be where the contemporary moment is dramatised: the oligarchs in their new penthouses, the bondholders in their new office towers, and the rest of us, competing for pseudomodernist new-builds designed on the understanding that we will be grateful to find anywhere at all to live.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include transmodern, ultramodernistic, antimodern, pseudoradical, postpostmodern, antimodernist.
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