twentieth-century
Post-Victorian historical period
Twentieth-century describes something belonging to or characteristic of the period from 1901 to 2000: twentieth-century architecture, twentieth-century warfare.
The term often evokes the era's dramatic technological and social changes—world wars, nuclear weapons, space travel, computing.
Something dismissed as so twentieth-century is outdated, superseded by newer developments.
Century's inaugural decade
- interwarBetween major conflicts
- postwarAfter hostilities end
- fin-de-siècleCentury's closing period
- EdwardianOf early twentieth-century Britain
Self-propelled passenger conveyance
- aviationFlying or operating aircraft
- radioElectromagnetic wave receiver
- televisionBroadcast viewing device
- computerElectronic calculating device
nuclear · transistor · satellite · telephone · electricity · plastics · antibiotics · rocket
Improvisational American music genre
- bluesMournful American music genre
- rockSolid earthen material
- swingSuspended recreational seat
- bebopFast, complex jazz style
soul · disco · punk · hip-hop · electronic · Stravinsky · Armstrong · Beatles
Favoring contemporary approaches
- avant-gardeInnovative cultural pioneers
- cubismGeometric, fragmented visual style
- surrealismIrrational, dreamlike aesthetic
- expressionismDistorting reality for emotion
abstract · Bauhaus · minimalism · Picasso · Dali · Warhol · Pollock · futurism
Ultranationalist dictatorial political system
- communismCollective ownership system
- democracyRule by the people
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
- decolonizationEnding imperial control
nationalism · totalitarianism · suffrage · apartheid · Holocaust · revolution · superpower · independence
- WoolfCanine surname variant
- JoyceIrish personal name
- FaulknerAmerican modernist author
- KafkaCzech-Jewish literary surname
Orwell · Borges · stream-of-consciousness · existentialism · postmodernism · dystopian
1900s
Century's inaugural decade
- interwarBetween major conflicts
- postwarAfter hostilities end
- fin-de-siècleCentury's closing period
automobile
Self-propelled passenger conveyance
- aviationFlying or operating aircraft
- radioElectromagnetic wave receiver
- televisionBroadcast viewing device
computer · nuclear · transistor · satellite · telephone · electricity · plastics · antibiotics · rocket · microchip
jazz
Improvisational American music genre
bebop · soul · disco · punk · hip-hop · electronic · Stravinsky · Armstrong · Beatles · Coltrane
modernism
Favoring contemporary approaches
- avant-gardeInnovative cultural pioneers
- cubismGeometric, fragmented visual style
- surrealismIrrational, dreamlike aesthetic
expressionism · abstract · Bauhaus · minimalism · Picasso · Dali · Warhol · Pollock · futurism · dadaism
fascism
Ultranationalist dictatorial political system
- communismCollective ownership system
- democracyRule by the people
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
decolonization · nationalism · totalitarianism · suffrage · apartheid · Holocaust · revolution · superpower · independence · partition
Hemingway
Kafka · Orwell · Borges · stream-of-consciousness · existentialism · postmodernism · dystopian
twentieth-centurymedieval
Of the Middle Ages
ancient · prehistoric · antiquity · Middle Ages · Stone Age
twentieth-centuryancient
Very old indeed
premodern · archaic · pre-industrial · primordial · medieval
twentieth, century, twenty, centuries, twenties, centurion, centurions, centennial, bicentennial