modernisticadj.n.
/ˌmɒdəˈnɪstɪk/, /ˌmɒdnˈɪstɪk/, U.S. /ˌmɑdərˈnɪstɪk/ A. adj.
Of, relating to, or suggestive of modernism or modernists; = modernist adj.
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the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adjective] > modern
modern1585
new-schoolish1844
New World1847
latter day1850
contemporary1859
unantiquated1859
todayish1864
contemporaneous1871
modernistic1878
presentist1878
up to date1888
down to date1893
up-with-the-times1893
de nos jours1909
up to the minute1909
chromium-plate1924
chromium-plated1924
contempo1944
now1955
New Wave1960
nouveau1974
society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [adjective] > specific movement or period
classical1546
pastoral1566
classic1597
Medicean1652
romantic1812
tedesco1814
realistic1829
realista1832
pseudo-classic1833
classicist1838
pseudo-classical1838
renaissant1839
modernist1848
post-classic1850
post-classical1851
pseudo-Gothic1853
classicizing1865
classicistic1866
serio-grotesque1873
geometric1877
neoclassical1877
modernistic1878
neoclassic1878
pseudo-archaic1878
William Morris1883
protocorinthian1884
veristic1884
William and Mary1886
Yuan1888
romanticistic1889
veritistic1894
auto-destructive1895
pre-Romantic1895
Trajanic1906
neo-realistic1909
New Romantic1909
neo-realist1912
futuristic1915
postmodern1916
Dada1918
Dadaist1918
surrealist1918
proto-Romantic1920
expressionistic1921
modernista1924
super-realist1925
superrealistic1925
postmodernist1926
proto-Baroque1926
post-symbolist1927
pre-modernist1927
surrealistic1930
Renaissancist1932
Colonial Revival1934
neo-baroque1935
socialist-realist1935
social realist1949
social realistic1949
kitchen sink1954
William IV1955
formalistic1957
Zhdanovite1957
neo-Dadaist1960
neo-modernist1960
William Morrisy1960
neo-Dada1962
Zhdanovist1966
conceptual1969
conceptualist1973
po-mo1987
pathetic1990
society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > systems of theology > [adjective] > Rationalistic
new light1648
neologic1797
neologous1812
neological1815
neologistic1827
rationalistic1828
neologian1831
modernistic1878
1878 M. J. Evans tr. J. J. van Oosterzee Pract. Theol. i. 39 Travel in the evangelical-apostolic highway, to the avoiding on the one hand of all narrow by-paths, and on the other of all Modernistic abysmal depths.
1893 Christian Union 29 Apr. 812/2 There are in Holland about fifty ‘free congregations’... About thirty-five of these organizations are more or less ‘modernistic’ or liberal.
1909 Daily Chron. 12 June 1/3 ‘L'Unione’ is denounced as reeking with modernistic and kindred ideas opposed to the principles and dogmas of the Roman Church.
1927 Sunday Times 13 Feb. 20/4 The audience liked its florid style as a change from more modernistic music.
1935 Archit. Rev. 77 82 The beautiful new dance-hall, with its modernistic sofas and lalique panels.
1945 L. Ginsberg Let. 2 Nov. in A. Ginsberg & L. Ginsberg Family Business (2001) 9 But too much modern, or rather modernistic poetry, is willfully obscure; it hides in private occult allusiveness.
1973 A. Behrend Samarai Affair iii. 30 A modernistic portrait in oils of the latest pilot boat.
1992 J. Stern & M. Stern Encycl. Pop Culture 363/1 Nautilus is a modernistic apparatus that..has..appealed to the more upscale gym-goers of the last twenty years.
B. n.
1. A modernistic piece or performance of art, music, etc. Usually in plural. Now rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [noun] > other general types
country music1585
water musicc1660
concert music1776
eye music1812
ballet music1813
night music1832
absolute music1856
Tafelmusik1880
Ars Antiqua1886
Ars Nova1886
early music1886
tone poetry1890
mood music1922
Gebrauchsmusik1930
shake music1935
modernistic1938
industrial1942
spasm music1943
musica reservata1944
protest music1949
night music1950
palm court music1958
title music1960
bottleneck guitar1961
rinky-tink1962
Schrammel-musik1967
sweet music1967
chutney1968
roots music1969
electronica1980
multiphonics1983
chutney soca1987
chiptune1992
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > modern and post-modern art
art moderne1900
postmodernism1914
modernistic1938
1938 New Verse Jan. 23 Tottenham Court Road modernistics by Mr Ronald Bottrall.
1958 P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz xv. 190 George Shearing will be remembered for his very accomplished playing in the 1940s, not for his more recent vapid modernistics.
1960 Times 29 Sept. 16/7 There is much to admire in this farrago of ‘modernistics’.
2. A person who creates such a work. rare.
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1947 N. Green Let. 4 Sept. in P. Sorrentino Stephen Crane Remembered (2006) xxiii. 126 Crane bemoaned the poverty of motives of the painters of the day—the too great following of the French modernistics.
2003 F. Toker Fallingwater Rising i. 27 The tiny camp of American architectural modernists..now took its place alongside the earlier camps of traditionalists, progressives, and modernistics.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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