postmodernism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement.
An attitude of skepticism or irony toward modernist ideologies, often questioning the assumptions of Enlightenment rationality and rejecting the idea of objective truth.

/pəʊstˈmɑdɚnɪzəm/ Postmodernism US.ogg

postmodernism postmodernisms

From post- + modernism.

postmodern postmodernity

postmodernist postpostmodernism post-postmodernism

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