modernism

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: mod=ern=ism

CIDE DICTIONARY

modernism, n. 

•  Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.  [1913 Webster]
•  Certain methods and tendencies which, in Biblical questions, apologetics, and the theory of dogma, in the endeavor to reconcile the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church with the conclusions of modern science, replace the authority of the church by purely subjective criteria; -- so called officially by Pope Pius X.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

modernism, n.
1 a modern ideas or methods. b the tendency of religious belief to harmonize with modern ideas.
2 a modern term or expression.

Derivative

modernist n. modernistic adj. modernistically adv.

ROGET THESAURUS

modernism

Newness

N newness, novelty, recency, immaturity, youth, gloss of novelty, innovation, renovation, modernism, mushroom, parvenu, latest fashion, new, novel, recent, fresh, green, young, evergreen, raw, immature, unsettled, yeasty, virgin, untried, unhandseled, untrodden, untrod, unbeaten, fire-new, span-new, late, modern, neoteric, hypermodern, nouveau, new-born, nascent, neonatal, new-fashioned, new-fangled, new-fledged, of yesterday, just out, brand-new, up to date, up to the minute, with it, fashionable, in fashion, in, hip, vernal, renovated, sempervirent, sempervirid, fresh as a rose, fresh as a daisy, fresh as paint, spick and span, newly, afresh, anew, lately, just now, only yesterday, the other day, latterly, of late, not long ago, a short time ago, di novello tutto par bello, nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum est prius, una scopa nuova spazza bene.