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. William Lyon Phelps:

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

2. 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.

3. Don DeLillo:

   In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

4. Ibn-e-Safi:

   Man after the second half of the twentieth century is frustrated. You know that the foundation of all subversiveness is laid on frustration and this frustration keeps finding ways to subversive activities. And you also know that an uncert...ain present has made man pessimistic about future... therefore he runs after anything that glitters, be it fire

5. Norman Mailer:

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