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Victorian vs Modernism - What's the difference?

victorian | modernism |

As nouns the difference between victorian and modernism

is that victorian is a person living, or born in that period, or exhibiting characteristics of the Victorian period while modernism is modern or contemporary ideas, thought, practices, etc.

As an adjective Victorian

is of or relating to the reign of Queen Victoria or the period from 1837 to 1901.

victorian

English

Adjective

(en adjective) (Victorian era)
  • Of or relating to the reign of Queen Victoria or the period from 1837 to 1901.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= It's a gas , passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
  • # Of or displaying the (supposed) standards or ideals of morality of that period.
  • # Of the style of architecture or furnishings of that period.
  • # Based on the culture of that period.
  • Of or relating to the state of Victoria in Australia.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person living, or born in that period, or exhibiting characteristics of the Victorian period.
  • * 2008 May 29 – June 4, Aimee Levitt, "Mind Your Manners", , page 20,
  • It was not until the late 1800s when older members of New York society... devised a daunting system of social rules — not to mention silverware — meant to repel anyone of humble origins... . It was the Victorians who gave us such useful implements as the strawberry knife.
  • A person from the state of Victoria in Australia.
  • A person from Victoria, British Columbia.
  • modernism

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Modern or contemporary ideas, thought, practices, etc.
  • (countable) Anything that is characteristic of modernity.
  • any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century
  • a religious movement in the early 20th century that tried to reconcile Roman Catholic dogma with modern science and philosophy
  • Derived terms

    * modernist * postmodernism English words suffixed with -ism ----