Definition of Postmodern

1. Adjective. Of or relating to postmodernism. "Postmodernist architecture"

Exact synonyms: Postmodernist
Partainyms: Postmodernism, Postmodernism

Definition of Postmodern

1. Adjective. Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of postmodernism, especially as represented in art, architecture, literature, science, or philosophy that reacts against an earlier modernism. ¹

2. Noun. A postmodernist. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Postmodern

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Postmodern

postmessianic
postmidnight
postmigratory
postmillenarian
postmillennial
postmillennialism
postmillennium
postminimal
postminimalism
postminimalist
postminimalists
postmistress
postmistresses
postmitochondrial
postmitotic
postmodern (current term)
postmodernisation
postmodernise
postmodernised
postmodernises
postmodernising
postmodernism
postmodernisms
postmodernist
postmodernists
postmodernities
postmodernity
postmodernization
postmodernize
postmodernized

Literary usage of Postmodern

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Education and Capitalism: How Overcoming Our Fear of Markets and Economics by Herbert J. Walberg (2003)
"5 CAPITALISM AND postmodern VALUES Religion has been supplanted in some debates over capitalism and morality by a set of ideas called postmodern by ..."

2. The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"... of Urban Space postmodern Forms of Arousal and Defense Strategies In the latter half of the twentieth century, many of the preceding diagnoses are still ..."

3. Monarchies: What are King and Queens For? by Tom Bentley, James Wilsdon (2002)
"postmodern monarchies How royalty unites diversity in the Low Countries Wim Mellaerts The Netherlands and Belgium have had a constitutional monarchy since ..."

4. Family Reunion: Reflections Carved in Sand and Stone by Robert G. Toomey (2006)
"... (A postmodern Version) The price was right, So I wrote a Program on the spot. It was so cost-effective That in the Process I rendered myself Obsolete. ..."

5. The Socius of Architecture: Amsterdam, Tokyo, New York by Arie Graafland (2000)
"Koolhaas saw the chance to combine both Kant's Ernst and the postmodern blockage in one and the same building: Lite- architecture (Koolhaas's own term for ..."

6. Education and Capitalism: How Overcoming Our Fear of Markets and Economics by Herbert J. Walberg (2003)
"5 CAPITALISM AND postmodern VALUES Religion has been supplanted in some debates over capitalism and morality by a set of ideas called postmodern by ..."

7. The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"... of Urban Space postmodern Forms of Arousal and Defense Strategies In the latter half of the twentieth century, many of the preceding diagnoses are still ..."

8. Monarchies: What are King and Queens For? by Tom Bentley, James Wilsdon (2002)
"postmodern monarchies How royalty unites diversity in the Low Countries Wim Mellaerts The Netherlands and Belgium have had a constitutional monarchy since ..."

9. Family Reunion: Reflections Carved in Sand and Stone by Robert G. Toomey (2006)
"... (A postmodern Version) The price was right, So I wrote a Program on the spot. It was so cost-effective That in the Process I rendered myself Obsolete. ..."

10. The Socius of Architecture: Amsterdam, Tokyo, New York by Arie Graafland (2000)
"Koolhaas saw the chance to combine both Kant's Ernst and the postmodern blockage in one and the same building: Lite- architecture (Koolhaas's own term for ..."

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