hypermodernism
English
noun
Definitions
- The state or condition of being hypermodern.
- (arts) An art movement distinguished from modernism and postmodernism chiefly by its extreme and antithetical (inverted) approach.
- (chess) A school of thought which advocates controlling the centre of the board with distant pieces rather than with pawns, thus inviting the opponent to occupy the centre with pawns which can then become objects of attack.
Etymology
Prefix from English modernism.
Origin
English
modernism
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antimodernism English
- comodernism English
- ecomodernism English
- metamodernism English
- modern English
- modernism English
- neomodernism English
- postmodernism English
- protomodernism English
- remodernism English
- supermodernism English
- ultramodernism English
- modernismi Finnish
- モダニズム Japanese