English Explanatory Dictionary

New Sincerity

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A partial return to modernism, going against prevailing modes of postmodernist irony or cynicism.

Word forms

New Sincerity the New Sincerity

Etymology

Popularized in the 1990s by American author David Foster Wallace.

Related words

metamodernism
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