Antimodern

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

Adjective
  1. 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 […]"

Synonyms

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reactionaryreactionary

Example

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"The third option is also nervous about modernity but in an antimodern rather than postmodern way, that is, it is alarmed rather than playful […]"

Etymology

From anti- + modern.

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