Definition of Postmodernist

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

Exact synonyms: Postmodern
Partainyms: Postmodernism, Postmodernism

Definition of Postmodernist

1. Adjective. postmodern ¹

2. Noun. An advocate or follower of postmodernism. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Postmodernist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Postmodernist

postminimalism
postminimalist
postminimalists
postmistress
postmistresses
postmitochondrial
postmitotic
postmodern
postmodernisation
postmodernise
postmodernised
postmodernises
postmodernising
postmodernism
postmodernisms
postmodernist (current term)
postmodernists
postmodernities
postmodernity
postmodernization
postmodernize
postmodernized
postmodernizes
postmodernizing
postmodernly
postmoderns
postmodifier
postmodifiers
postmodify
postmonsoon

Literary usage of Postmodernist

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

1. Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development by Jane L. Parpart, Patricia Connelly, Eudine Barriteau (2000)
"Others adopt a more synthetic approach. Some of these postmodernist feminists — most notably Jane Flax (1990) and Judith Butler and Joan Scott ..."

2. Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development by Jane L. Parpart, Patricia Connelly, Eudine Barriteau (2000)
"Some of these postmodernist feminists — most notably Jane Flax (1990) and Judith Butler and Joan Scott (1992) — have believed that postmodernist thinking ..."

3. The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"postmodernist fiction draws upon a number of strategies for ... 3 A number of postmodernist zone constructs are undoubtedly city images and some of them ..."

4. Crossover: Architecture, Urbanism, Technology by Ad Graafland, Leslie Jaye Kavanaugh, George Baird (2006)
"They adhere neither to modernist, nor to postmodernist conceptions of space. In fact, their practice is a challenge to the very dualism between modernist ..."

5. Knowledge Shared: Participatory Evaluation in Development Cooperation by Edward T. Jackson, Yusuf Kassam (1998)
"The postmodernist critiques suggest important implications for participatory ... postmodernist writers, such as Foucault (1973, 1977) and Lyotard (1984), ..."

6. The Socius of Architecture: Amsterdam, Tokyo, New York by Arie Graafland (2000)
"These postmodernist architects were assessed both favorably and unfavorably. ... An important distinction between modernist vision and postmodernist view ..."

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