Modernism Vocab #2 April 18-22

Apathy Noun absence or suppression of passion, emotion, or excitement.

Absolutism Noun any theory holding that values, principles, etc., are absolute and not relative, dependent, or changeable.

Relativism noun The doctrine that no ideas or beliefs are universally true but that all are, instead, “relative” — that is, their validity depends on the circumstances in which they are applied.

Skepticism noun doubt or unbelief with regard to a religion, especially Christianity.

Highbrow Adjective intellectual, scholarly, cultured; bookish, snobbish, pseudointellectual.

Lowbrow Adjective Unsophisticated, uncultured, vulgar

Dehumanization Verb to deprive of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality

Impotent adjective not potent; lacking power or ability; without force or effectiveness; utterly unable (to do something).

Stream-of-consciousness adjective a manner of writing in which a character's thoughts or perceptions are presented as occurring in random form, without regard for logical sequences, syntactic structure, distinctions between various levels of reality, or the like:

Unreliable narrator noun a narrator whose credibility has been seriously compromised