postmodernism
English
/pəʊstˈmɑdɚnɪzəm/
noun
Definitions
- Any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement.
- An attitude of skepticism or irony toward modernist ideologies, often questioning the assumptions of Enlightenment rationality and rejecting the idea of objective truth.
Etymology
Prefix from English modernism.
Origin
English
modernism
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antimodernism English
- comodernism English
- ecomodernism English
- hypermodernism English
- metamodernism English
- modern English
- modernism English
- neomodernism English
- post-postmodernism English
- protomodernism English
- remodernism English
- supermodernism English
- ultramodernism English
- modernismi Finnish
- постмодерни́зм Russian
- modernisme Norwegian Bokmål
- postmodernisme Norwegian Bokmål
- ポストモダニズム Japanese
- モダニズム Japanese
- modernisme Norwegian Nynorsk
- postmodernisme Norwegian Nynorsk
- պոստմոդեռնիզմ Armenian
- постмодернизм Kazakh