Synonyms for twentieth century
twen·ti·eth cen·tu·ry

Princeton's WordNet

1. twentieth centurynoun

   the century from 1901 to 2000

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1. Norman Mailer:

   The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

2. Noam Chomsky:

   Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid-twentieth century.

3. George Kravis:

   I’m very interested in the preservation of twentieth-century architecture and design, whether it be an art deco building, a gas station from the 1950s, or objects of forward-thinking contemporary design from any part of the world.

4. R. D. Laing:

   From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.

5. Pope Francis:

   The first, which is widely considered 'the first genocide of the twentieth century,' struck your own Armenian people.