Definitions

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  • adjective Opposed to modernity or modernization
  • noun A person opposed to modernity or modernization

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ modern

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Examples

  • Military coups are unfashionable in European and wannabe European countries these days, so the military dictatorship weakens and the popular element — Islamic, antisemitic, antiKurdish, antidemocratic, antimodern — rises.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Let Turkey Have Gaza 2010

  • Rousseau's "antimodern tunnel vision," Mr. Potter says, can be found in various modern forms: in the views of the American Transcendentalists of the 19th century and the counterculture heroes of the 1960s, for instance; or in such gloomy social critics as Al Gore and Prince Charles and alarmists like James Howard Kunstler.

    Why It's So Hard To Get Real Paul Beston 2010

  • Rousseau's "antimodern tunnel vision," Mr. Potter says, can be found in various modern forms: in the views of the American Transcendentalists of the 19th century and the counterculture heroes of the 1960s, for instance; or in such gloomy social critics as Al Gore and Prince Charles and alarmists like James Howard Kunstler.

    Why It's So Hard To Get Real Paul Beston 2010

  • These antimodern voices, and others, represent what Mr. Potter calls "the authenticity hoax in full throat: a dopey nostalgia for a non-existent past, a one-sided suspicion of the modern world, and stagnant and reactionary politics masquerading as something personally meaningful and socially progressive."

    Why It's So Hard To Get Real Paul Beston 2010

  • Military coups are unfashionable in European and wannabe European countries these days, so the military dictatorship weakens and the popular element — Islamic, antisemitic, antiKurdish, antidemocratic, antimodern — rises.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Let Turkey Have Gaza 2010

  • Rousseau's "antimodern tunnel vision," Mr. Potter says, can be found in various modern forms: in the views of the American Transcendentalists of the 19th century and the counterculture heroes of the 1960s, for instance; or in such gloomy social critics as Al Gore and Prince Charles and alarmists like James Howard Kunstler.

    Why It's So Hard To Get Real Paul Beston 2010

  • These antimodern voices, and others, represent what Mr. Potter calls "the authenticity hoax in full throat: a dopey nostalgia for a non-existent past, a one-sided suspicion of the modern world, and stagnant and reactionary politics masquerading as something personally meaningful and socially progressive."

    Why It's So Hard To Get Real Paul Beston 2010

  • These antimodern voices, and others, represent what Mr. Potter calls "the authenticity hoax in full throat: a dopey nostalgia for a non-existent past, a one-sided suspicion of the modern world, and stagnant and reactionary politics masquerading as something personally meaningful and socially progressive."

    Why It's So Hard To Get Real Paul Beston 2010

  • The fervent hope for these anti-democratic, anti-Semitic, antimodern and anti-Western reactionaries would be to find Russia's future in its past.

    The Stakes For Them--And Us 2008

  • Almost unbelievably, the federal government may block one of the disease's more promising therapies for no other reason than the Food and Drug Administration's obsolete, even antimodern, regulations and approval models.

    A Moral Test for the FDA 2008

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