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antimodernity

antimodernity noun: opposition to modernity.

Noun

antimodernity (uncountable)

  1. Opposition to modernity.
    • The knowledge that Stewart suggests is therefore not simply the remnant of an irrational antimodernity (as Horkheimer and Adorno would suggest) nor is it a linear return to an indigenous belief system that is premodern.2010, Tyson E. Lewis, Richard Kahn, Education Out of Bounds

Origin of antimodernity

From anti- + modernity.

Questions about antimodernity

What does antimodernity mean?
Antimodernity means opposition to modernity.
What part of speech is antimodernity?
Antimodernity is a noun.

Words near antimodernity in the dictionary

  1. antimodern
  2. antimodernism
  3. antimodernisms
  4. antimodernist
  5. antimodernists
  6. antimodernity
  7. antimodernization
  8. antimoderns
  9. antimodes
  10. antimodular
  11. antimoisture

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