Meaning of pseudotraditionalism | Babel Free

Definitions

Something which appears to be traditionalism (adherence to traditional views or practices), but is not.

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Examples

“More important, as even a brief overview of his impressive oeuvre would immediately reveal, he promoted an extraordinary variety of architecture and a versatility in modes of design that encompass high modernism with direct functionalism, art nouveau and art deco, Nordic romanticism, neo-brutalism, pseudotraditionalism, and traditional Japanese residential and teahouse architectures.”

“Every few decades, it seems, America is fated to endure a new spasm of pseudotraditionalism, with women encouraged to seek shelter from a brutal world in homemaking.”

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