antimodernity

Etymology

From anti- + modernity.

antimodernity means Opposition to modernity. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 86 out of 100.

Why this word is great

ANTIMODERNITY — [Noun] A principled opposition to the core tenets, values, and material conditions of the modern era. From the English prefix anti- ("against") + modernity (from the Latin modernus, "just now, of the present time"). Unlike traditionalism, which curates and preserves specific inherited customs, or postmodernity, which playfully deconstructs modernity’s narratives from within, antimodernity is a wholesale, often mournful rebellion. It is a hand refusing a touchscreen in favor of the quill's deliberate scratch, the cultivated silence in a landscape of notification pings, and the stubborn warmth of an oil lamp in a room wired for LED brilliance—a curated and tangible exile from a world one is doomed, exquisitely, to understand.

noun

Opposition 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.”