postmodernism

postmodernism

English

Etymology

From post- +‎ modernism.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pəʊstˈmɑdɚnɪzəm/

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Noun

postmodernism (usually uncountable, plural postmodernisms)

1. Any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement.

   Coordinate terms: modernism, metamodernism, post-postmodernism

2. An attitude of skepticism or irony toward modernist ideologies, often questioning the assumptions of Enlightenment rationality and rejecting the idea of objective truth.
   • 2001, Daniel Gordon, editor, Postmodernism and the Enlightenment, Routledge, →ISBN, page 202:

     The most famous definition of postmodernism is Lyotard's: “I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives.” […] To accept Lyotard's definition of postmodernism is to accept the premise that postmodernism is the first movement since the Enlightenment to think critically about such narratives.

Derived terms

• postmodernist
• post-postmodernism

Related terms

• postmodern

Translations

a style of art, literature, etc

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: պոստմոդեռնիզմ (postmodeṙnizm) Bulgarian: постмодерни́зъм (bg) m (postmodernízǎm) Catalan: postmodernisme f Chinese: Cantonese: 後現代主義, 后现代主义 (hau6 jin6 doi6 zyu2 ji6) Mandarin: 後現代主義／后现代主义 (zh) (hòuxiàndàizhǔyì) Min Nan: 後現代主義, 后现代主义 (āu-hiān-tāi-chú-gī) Czech: postmoderna f Danish: postmodernisme Dutch: postmodernisme (nl) Esperanto: postmodernismo Estonian: postmodernism (et) Finnish: postmodernismi French: post-modernisme (fr) m, postmodernisme (fr) m Galician: posmodernismo m Georgian: პოსტმოდერნიზმი (ṗosṭmodernizmi) German: Postmoderne (de) f, Postmodernismus m Greek: μεταμοντερισμός m (metamonterismós) Hebrew: פוסטמודרניזם‎ (he) Hungarian: posztmodern Icelandic: póstmódernismi m Interlingua: postmodernismo Irish: iarnua-aoiseachas m Italian: postmodernismo (it) m Japanese: ポストモダニズム (posutomodanizumu) Kazakh: постмодернизм (postmodernizm) Korean: 포스트모더니즘 (poseuteumodeonijeum) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: postmodernîzm Limburgish: Posmodernisme Lithuanian: postmodernizmas m Macedonian: постмодерни́зам m (postmodernízam) Malay: postmodenisme Malayalam: ഉത്തരാധുനികത (uttarādhunikata) Maori: angatuahoutanga Norwegian: Bokmål: postmodernisme m Nynorsk: postmodernisme m Persian: پسانوگرایی‎ (fa) Polish: postmodernizm (pl) m Portuguese: pós-modernismo (pt) m Romanian: postmodernism m Russian: постмодерни́зм (ru) m (postmodɛrnízm) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: постмодернизам m, постмодерна f Roman: postmodernizam (sh) m, postmoderna (sh) f Slovak: postmoderna f Spanish: postmodernidad (es) f, posmodernismo (es) m Swedish: postmodernism (sv) c Tamil: பின்நவீனத்துவம் (piṉnavīṉattuvam) Turkish: postmodernizm (tr) Ukrainian: постмодерні́зм m (postmodernízm) Vietnamese: trường phái hậu hiện đại

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Romanian

Etymology

From English postmodernism.

Noun

postmodernism n (uncountable)

1. postmodernism

Declension

declension of postmodernism (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) postmodernism	postmodernismul
genitive/dative	(unui) postmodernism	postmodernismului
vocative	postmodernismule

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Swedish

Etymology

post- +‎ modernism

Noun

postmodernism c

1. postmodernism

Declension

Declension of postmodernism
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	postmodernism	postmodernismen	—	—
Genitive	postmodernisms	postmodernismens	—	—