Pseudomodernist
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Having a modernist or postmodernist appearance but not having the associated qualities not-comparable
"More than ever, architecture seems to be where the contemporary moment is dramatised: the oligarchs in their new penthouses, the bondholders in their new office towers, and the rest of us, competing for pseudomodernist new-builds designed on the understanding that we will be grateful to find anywhere at all to live."
Example
More examples"More than ever, architecture seems to be where the contemporary moment is dramatised: the oligarchs in their new penthouses, the bondholders in their new office towers, and the rest of us, competing for pseudomodernist new-builds designed on the understanding that we will be grateful to find anywhere at all to live."
Etymology
From pseudo- + modernist.
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