neoteric

Etymology
From, from Hellenistic Greek , from comparative of.

Adjective

 * 1) Modern, new-fangled.
 * 2) New; recent.
 * 1) New; recent.

Noun

 * 1) A modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer).
 * , Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.140:
 * Galen himself writes promiscuously of them both by reason of their affinity; but most of our neoterics do handle them apart, whom I will follow in this treatise.
 * 1) Someone with new or modern ideas.
 * 2)  any poet who belonged to the neoterics, a series of avant-garde Latin poets who wrote in the 1st century BC such as Catullus,, ,  and.