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modernist

adj

Etymology

Ellipsis of Modernist Cuisine, a book on molecular gastronomy.

  1. derived from modo
  2. derived from modernus
  3. derived from moderne
  4. suffixed as modernist — “modern + ist”

Definitions

  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of modernism.

    • Watercolor is not just a romantic or old-fashioned medium, said Mr. [Thomas W.] Schaller, a renderer who began his career as an architect in Boston, but a way “to apply a sense of luminosity to more modernist design.”
    • It survived the overreach of progress once before, escaping demolition and rebuilding in the 1970s. That survival was a triumph against the "stridently modernist" plans then put forth.

  2. A follower or proponent of modernism.

  3. Pertaining to the culinary arts of molecular gastronomy.

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