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hypermodernism

noun

Etymology

From hyper- + modernism.

  1. derived from modo
  2. derived from modernus
  3. derived from moderne
  4. suffixed as modernism — “modern + ism”
  5. prefixed as hypermodernism — “hyper + modernism”

Definitions

  1. The state or condition of being hypermodern.

  2. An art movement distinguished from modernism and postmodernism chiefly by its extreme and…

    An art movement distinguished from modernism and postmodernism chiefly by its extreme and antithetical (inverted) approach.

  3. A school of thought which advocates controlling the centre of the board with distant…

    A school of thought which advocates controlling the centre of the board with distant pieces rather than with pawns, thus inviting the opponent to occupy the centre with pawns which can then become objects of attack.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hypermodernism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA