antimodernist

Examples

• All

• Many artists today are embracing an antimodernist approach, promoting traditional techniques over contemporary styles.

• I see this antimodernist impulse in Monet's Impressionist practice as an alternative "primitivist" strain competing with his modernism throughout the 1870s and 1880s.

  Academic text (2015)

• Though its membership was never very numerous, it included several highly placed ecclesiastics and enjoyed the support of others in sympathy with its antimodernist aims.

  Academic text (2007)

• Quebec was quite a different story, however, for the old fortress city appealed to Brooke's strong antimodernist sensibility.

  Academic text (2013)

• However, if Pascendi were effective to the degree O'Connell suggests, then why the antimodernist oath in 1910 and its survival for half a century thereafter?

  Academic text (2010)

• Explaining his refusal to take the antimodernist oath, one of Coenobium's editors claimed that adherence to a religious truth could not be imposed externally.

  Academic text (2010)

• It tracks an intellectual crisis within Catholicism, linked to political events in France and swiftly resolved by measures set forth in the antimodernist encyclical.

  Academic text (2010)

• The bungalow's design, in its "honesty," meshes with an antimodernist rationale, a reaction, arguably, against the excesses of Arts and Crafts exuberance.

  Academic text (2011)

• The antimodernist philosophy often values heritage and nostalgia over the innovations of modern culture.

Synonyms

T

traditionalist

vsantimodernist

20 5.6

A person who holds strongly to old customs and resists change

concentrates opposition on modern ideas mainly in art and culture

C

classicist

vsantimodernist

2 8.2

A person who prefers the simple, balanced style of ancient art and buildings

opposes modern styles in art rather than updating ancient models

A

antimodern

vsantimodernist

8.2

A person who opposes modern ideas and prefers traditional ways

focuses opposition especially on art culture and society

N

neotraditionalist

vsantimodernist

8.5

A person who wants to bring back old ways in a modern setting

opposes modern ideas instead of seeking to adapt older ones

N

neoclassicist

vsantimodernist

• Specialized

9.2

Relating to a style based on ancient Greek and Roman art

opposes modern ideas more broadly than just reviving past styles

H

historicist

vsantimodernist

• Specialized

8.6

Using styles from the past in art or buildings

opposes modern ideas rather than merely copying older designs

Antonyms

P

progressive

251 4.8

Supporting new social changes in politics to make society fairer

M

modernist

15 5.5

Relating to new art or design that breaks old styles

How Opposed

reactionary

8 8.6

antimodernist

• Literature

8.0

opposed

1 3.5

critical

121 5.2

modernist

15 5.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology