postmodern

adjective

post·mod·ern ˌpōs(t)-ˈmä-dərn

nonstandard -ˈmä-d(ə-)rən

: of, relating to, or being an era after a modern one

postmodern times

a postmodern metropolis

: of, relating to, or being any of various movements in reaction to modernism that are typically characterized by a return to traditional materials and forms (as in architecture) or by ironic self-reference and absurdity (as in literature)

: of, relating to, or being a theory that involves a radical reappraisal of modern assumptions about culture, identity, history, or language

postmodern feminism

postmodernism

ˌpōs(t)-ˈmä-dər-ˌni-zəm

noun

postmodernist

ˌpōs(t)-ˈmä-dər-nist

adjective or noun

postmodernity

ˌpōs(t)-mə-ˈdər-ne-tē

-mä-

also -ˈder-

noun

Examples of postmodern in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web That’s generally my vibe: a postmodern mash-up of earthy, anachronistic styles that are diametrically opposed to the sci-fi fantasy suggested by the Urwerk UR-120. —

Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 12 Sep. 2024 My favorite sequence in the 2007 Bollywood movie Om Shanti Om, a minor postmodern masterpiece from director Farah Khan, comes early in its nearly three-hour run time. —

Mallika Rao, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024 In other contexts, Cooper and Carlson might have decried such an approach—an archly postmodern attitude in which all facts are relative, all orthodoxies suspect. —

Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2024 In effect, Putinism is something much more crafty and postmodern than the lumbering, stifling control enforced by the Soviet state. —

Joshua Yaffa, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2012 See all Example Sentences for postmodern

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