Meanings
nounantimodernity (uncountable)
- uncountableOpposition to modernity.
The knowledge that Stewart suggests is therefore not simply the remnant of an irrational antimodernity (as Horkheimer and Adorno would suggest) nor is it a linear return to an indigenous belief system that is premodern.
2010, Tyson E. Lewis, Richard Kahn, Education Out of Bounds
Origin
Translations
Italian antimodernità
- antimodernitàopposition to modernity
Polish antynowoczesność
- antynowoczesnośćopposition to modernity
Portuguese antimodernidade
- antimodernidadeopposition to modernity
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antimodernity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antimodernity
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“antimodernity.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antimodernity. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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