1. Modernism Vocab #2
April 18-22

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

7. Lowbrow
Adjective
Unsophisticated, uncultured, vulgar

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

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

10. 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:

11. Unreliable narrator noun
a narrator whose credibility has been seriously compromised