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postmodernism

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Etymology

From post- + modernism.

Pronunciation

Noun

postmodernism (usually uncountable, plural postmodernisms)

  1. Any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement.
    Coordinate terms: modernism, metamodernism, post-postmodernism
  2. An attitude of skepticism or irony toward modernist ideologies, often questioning the assumptions of Enlightenment rationality and rejecting the idea of objective truth.
    • 2001, Daniel Gordon, editor, Postmodernism and the Enlightenment, Routledge, →ISBN, page 202:
      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.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English postmodernism. By surface analysis, postmodern + -ism.

Noun

postmodernism n (uncountable)

  1. postmodernism

Declension

More information singular only, indefinite ...
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Swedish

Etymology

post- + modernism

Noun

postmodernism c

  1. postmodernism

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...

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