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postmodernism en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /pəʊstˈmɑdɚnɪzəm/ (General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English modern Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English modernism English postmodernism From post- + modernism.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) Any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement.
2. (uncountable, usually) An attitude of skepticism or irony toward modernist ideologies, often questioning the assumptions of Enlightenment rationality and rejecting the idea of objective truth.
   • The most famous definition of postmodernism is Lyotard's: “I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives.” […] To accept Lyotard's definition of postmodernism is to accept the premise that postmodernism is the first movement since the Enlightenment to think critically about such narratives. 2001, Daniel Gordon, editor, Postmodernism and the Enlightenment, Routledge, →ISBN, page 202:

Forms

Coordinates

metamodernism · post-postmodernism · modernism

Deriveds

postpostmodernism · post-postmodernism · postmodernist

Relateds

postmodernity · postmodern

Translations (58)

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