postmodernist
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- noun
- /ˌpoʊstˈmɒdərnɪst/
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posmodernista
- Many postmodernists believe that absolute truths cannot exist in a fragmented world.
- postmodernists claim
- generation of postmodernists
- postmodernists call themselves
And so and so halfway through the the dinner or whenever it was, I said to her, so I hear you're a postmodernist.
- And so and so halfway through the the dinner or whenever it was, I said to her, so I hear you're a postmodernist.
- And so the postmodernists, you know, quite often, like he says, the postmodern term was used too often as a stick to with which to beat Marxism.
- But before Ioffer mine, what when people say the truth, what do they when postmodernist say the truth, what do they mean?
Examples
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One does not have to be a postmodernist to engage with the challenges of postmodern thought.
Academic text (1993) -
But their writings also enunciate concerns common to postmodernists and their critics.
Academic text (1993) -
Farr is someone who learned a lot from the group of writers that we would call postmodernist and that I would call late modernist.
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Shweder is an interesting postmodernist and admirable in his thoroughgoing rationalism.
Academic text (1992) -
Kuspit said of postmodernists that "they are not inflated by seriousness."
Academic text (1992) -
Judith Butler, an influential postmodernist, doubts the viability of an oppositional politics.
Academic text (2001) -
Like many postmodernists, Borowitz labels himself a non-rationalist, in contrast with modern rationalists.
Academic text (1993) -
Yet even if they dispensed with modernist mirrors and windows, the postmodernists could not help but instantiate their own dichotomizing scheme.
Academic text (2005) -
But I add that the indispensability of interpretive schemas for achieving understanding is not an insight peculiar to postmodernists.
Academic text (1995) -
The postmodernist rejected traditional storytelling techniques in favor of experimental narratives.
Synonyms
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8.1
A person who puts ideas before how art is made
A person who questions fixed meanings and power in language and culture
How Postmodern
Surface Forms
Morphology
postmodernist = postmodern (transparent) = post + modern + ist
Derived by adding the productive agent/affiliation suffix '-ist' to 'postmodern', yielding a person or adherent; the derivation is regular and transparent.
Etymology
Postmodernist names a person and comes from post- 'after' plus modern 'new', so a postmodernist is someone who goes beyond 'modern' ways and often questions the idea of one single truth.