postmillennial
English
Alternative forms
- post-millennial
Etymology
From post- + millennial.
Adjective
postmillennial (comparative more postmillennial, superlative most postmillennial)
- (Christianity) Pertaining to the belief that the Second Coming will take place after the millennium. [from 19th c.]
- 1990, Murray N. Rothbard, Karl Marx: Communist as Religious Eschatologist, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, DOI:, →ISBN, page 123–179:
- And just as for postmillennial Christians, man, led by God's prophets and saints, will establish a Kingdom of God on Earth (for premillennials, Jesus will have many human assistants in setting up such a kingdom), so, for Marx and other schools of communists, mankind, led by a vanguard of secular saints, will establish a secularized Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
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- Pertaining to the period following the year 1000 or (now more usually) following the year 2000. [from 20th c.]
- Antonym: premillennial
- 2015, Robin James, Resilience & Melancholy, Zero Books, →ISBN:
- […] “Sweet Nothing” is a quintessential example of both postmillennial EDM-pop music and neoliberal ideology because it shows how the two are intertwined.
- 2016 June 18, Rosie Ifould, “‘I worried people would forget about me’: can teenagers survive without social media?”, in The Guardian:
- In 2001, the US author Marc Prensky invented the term “digital native” to describe the post-millennial generation who would grow up in an online world.