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. Don DeLillo:

   Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself. This is where we are. The twentieth century is on film. You have to ask yourself if there's anything about us more important than the fact that we're constantly on film, constantly watching ourselves.

2. 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.

3. Norman Mailer:

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

4. William Lyon Phelps:

   The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.

5. Malcolm Muggeridge:

   One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.