Demodernization
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Reversion from modernization to a pre-modern state; removal of modern elements or amenities from. countable, uncountable
"A modern account by the eminent scholar Omer Bartov emphasises such factors as the general demodernization of warfare on this [WWII Eastern] front; the ways in which massive casualties destroyed the loyalties of micro, primary groups, leaving soldiers with nothing to identify with other than the macro group of race and nation; [...]"
Example
More examples"A modern account by the eminent scholar Omer Bartov emphasises such factors as the general demodernization of warfare on this [WWII Eastern] front; the ways in which massive casualties destroyed the loyalties of micro, primary groups, leaving soldiers with nothing to identify with other than the macro group of race and nation; [...]"
Etymology
From de- + modernization or demodernize + -ation.
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