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supermodernism

noun

Etymology

From super- + modernism.

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

Definitions

  1. An architectural style following modernism and postmodernism, promoted by Hans Ibelings.

  2. Extreme modernism.

    • Existing modernism appeared to erode, then, in the face of this supermodernism, and at precisely the moment when art was taken most seriously―or at least, deemed too important to be left to the artist.
    • Articulating this insight in every way possible seemed to define fin-de-millennium social theory in relation to the network society, the global city, the information bomb, sociology against society, supermodernism, and so on.

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