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antimodern

antimodern adjective: opposed to modernity or modernization.

Adjective

antimodern (comparative more antimodern, superlative most antimodern)

  1. Opposed to modernity or modernization
    • The third option is also nervous about modernity but in an antimodern rather than postmodern way, that is, it is alarmed rather than playful […]2005, John Durham Peters, Courting the Abyss, →ISBN, page 2
    Synonyms:
    reactionary

Noun

antimodern (plural antimoderns)

  1. A person opposed to modernity or modernization
    • The antimoderns firmly believe that the West has rationalized and disenchanted the world, that it has truly peopled the social with cold and rational monsters which saturate all of space, that it has definitively transformed the premodern cosmos into a mechanical interaction of pure matters.2012, Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, page 123

Synonyms of antimodern

Forms of antimodern

Adjective
comparativemore antimodern
superlativemost antimodern
Noun
pluralantimoderns

Origin of antimodern

From anti- + modern.

Questions about antimodern

What does antimodern mean?
Antimodern means opposed to modernity or modernization.
What part of speech is antimodern?
Antimodern can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near antimodern in the dictionary

  1. antimob
  2. antimodal
  3. antimode
  4. antimodel
  5. antimodels
  6. antimodern
  7. antimodernism
  8. antimodernisms
  9. antimodernist
  10. antimodernists
  11. antimodernity

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