postmodern
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- adjective
- /ˌpoʊstˈmɒdərn/
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posmoderno
- The building's design is a striking example of postmodern architecture, combining different styles and materials.
- postmodern fiction
- postmodern architecture
- postmodern theory
It's a kind of postmodern anti hero world.
- It's a kind of postmodern anti hero world.
- And that's a, that's a in some respects A postmodern idea and ideal.
- I'm hoping for good postmodern narratives that replace it.
- So there is no meta narrative in the postmodern view.
- In that sense, classic prose is the opposite of anything that is relativist, ironic, romantic, postmodern, or self-conscious.
- There's some pretty hardcore postmodern sections of the Academy that that are, are studying quite strange things.
- What I think is at the core of the postmodern critique, I don't think you can look at the world except through a structure of value and the, the English.
- We're living in postmodern weirdo land, and we're worse for it.
- So it's very surreal, sort of postmodern existence back back in those days.
- In our our modern culture today are essentially postmodern culture, late modern culture.
Examples
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I think that increasingly solutions to problems in a postmodern enlightenment, non religious world are very cerebral.
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Kerry, we live in the postmodern world.
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You must accept the reality of the postmodern world, there is no truth.
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Leaders who understand postmodern thinking.
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Lucy wanted the postmodern pieces.
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It's a kind of postmodern anti hero world.
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What do you think of our postmodern fantasy?
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What is the purpose of cultivating ecological wisdom at this postmodern moment in human history?
Academic text (1991) -
Finally, there is an argument for toleration based on a kind of postmodern skepticism.
Academic text (1999) -
Weaving a figure in the textual carpet is a favorite technique of postmodern literature.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
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Having a style that mixes old and new ideas and questions usual rules
How Postmodern
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Postmodern is made from post- meaning 'after' and modern meaning 'new' or 'of the present'. So postmodern describes art, books, or buildings that come after modern styles and often mix, question, or play with older ideas.