postmodernism

From post- +‎ modernism.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pəʊstˈmɑdɚnɪzəm/

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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.

• postmodernist
• post-postmodernism

• postmodern
• postmodernity

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

postmodernism n (uncountable)

1. postmodernism

post- +‎ modernism

postmodernism c

1. postmodernism