What is another word for new wave?

Pronunciation: [njˈuː wˈe͡ɪv] (IPA)

New wave, a term primarily associated with music, emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It originally referred to a subgenre of punk music, characterized by its avant-garde sensibilities, experimentation, and a rejection of mainstream conventions. As the movement spread to other fields, the term new wave became synonymous with innovation, change, and progress. Synonyms for new wave include avant-garde, cutting-edge, breakthrough, trailblazing, pioneering, futuristic, and innovative. These words denote a departure from the old ways of doing things and embrace new methods and technologies. Whether it's music, art, fashion, or technology, new wave represents a continued quest for something fresh and different.

What are the hypernyms for New wave?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    alternative music, post-punk music, style/genre of music.

What are the hyponyms for New wave?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

Famous quotes with New wave

  • When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade, the United States and our allies, trying to figure out how to deal with it.
    Paul Bremer
  • All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do... And it was a coincidence that these new bands, this new wave of bands, were doing Alice and Iggy rock.
    Alice Cooper
  • Oh yeah, that was the thing to do at that time. This was before the new wave of bebop started.
    Martin Denny
  • About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury.
    Ernie Pyle
  • In heaven after ages of ages of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit sea bears us onward, It doth not yet appear what we shall be.
    Alexander MacLaren

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