postmodernist
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9.6
- adjective
- /ˌpoʊstˈmɒdərnɪst/
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posmodernista
- Similarly, the relativism of the postmodernist position poses dangers by allowing everyone to have his or her own criteria.
- postmodernist discourse
- postmodernist fiction
- postmodernist critique
But they, they, the people who adhere to these postmodernist ideas, they say they have the last word on justice.
- But they, they, the people who adhere to these postmodernist ideas, they say they have the last word on justice.
Examples
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Indeed, the straw man of such essentialism is possibly the leitmotif in postmodernist treatments of persons, subjects, and characters.
Academic text (1990) -
Many authors employ a postmodernist approach, challenging the conventional narrative structures in their books.
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More than many postmodernist writers, they mean to play for high stakes.
Academic text (1993) -
But they, they, the people who adhere to these postmodernist ideas, they say they have the last word on justice.
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Because history deals a lot with literature, the kind of postmodernist deconstruction of what texts mean.
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That's sort of mine, a little postmodernist reading of Max Weber.
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To include irony and play is never necessarily to exclude seriousness of purpose in postmodernist art.
Academic text (1999) -
The cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard called Leone the first "postmodernist film director" for a reason.
Blog text (12) -
Hennessy also argues for a reevaluation of postmodernist theories to see if they can enhance feminism's political objectives.
Academic text (1993) -
With its ironic distance from modernist commitment, postmodernist art reveals the disclaimed iconicity of modernism.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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7.0
A style in art or literature that mixes different ideas and questions old rules
Surface Forms
Morphology
postmodernist = postmodern (transparent) = post + modern + ist
Formed from the adjective 'postmodern' + the productive suffix '-ist'; the meaning is directly derived and predictable from the base.
Etymology
Postmodernist combines post- 'after' and modern 'new' or 'of today', so it describes art, architecture, or ideas that come 'after' the modern movement and often question or break the old rules.