MODERNIST

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An artist who makes a deliberate break with previous styles

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Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("modernist" is a kind of...):

artist; creative person (a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination)

Derivation:

modernism (genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres)

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