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postmillennial

postmillennial

9.3
The time after a thousand-year period often talked about in history or religion
  • adjective
  • /ˌpoʊstmɪˈlɛn.i.əl/
translation icon : posmilénico
  • The church's role in a postmillennial context is seen as crucial for fostering community and promoting social change.

Examples

  • Many scholars debate the implications of postmillennial thought on contemporary society and its future.

  • The whole reaction to this is the kind of neo-Victorianism that has become the hallmark of postmillennial American idiocy.

    Blog text (25)

  • Artists like Martin Tayou, Moshekwa Langa, Mary Evans, and this writer already work in forms and aesthetics that demand familiarity with current debates in postmodernist and postmillennial thought.

    Academic text (1998)

  • In postmillennial discussions, some argue that the world has improved significantly since the turn of the millennium.

Surface Forms

postmillennial positive

Morphology

postmillennial = millennial (transparent) = post + millennium + al

Formed by the productive prefix 'post-' (after) attached to 'millennial', so the meaning 'after the millennium' is directly derivable.

Etymology

Postmillennial is made of post- ('after') and millennial, from millennium ('a thousand years'). So, postmillennial means 'after the thousand-year period' and is used for things about the time following a millennium.