currency vs modernism

currency and modernism both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
currency	Yes	No	No	No
modernism	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, modernism is a hyponym of currency; that is, modernism is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than currency:

Other hyponyms of currency include contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernity, modernness, fashionableness.

currency (noun)	modernism (noun)
the property of belonging to the present time	practices typical of contemporary life or thought
general acceptance or use	genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres
the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used	the quality of being current or of the present