pomo

Adjective

postmodern (comparative more postmodern, superlative most postmodern)

1. (literally) Relating to what follows the modern era.
   • The nearer is a fact to the temporary limits of knowledge, the more implicated becomes this regression and the more blurred ought to be statement of fact. [Percy W.] Bridgman of Harvard recently has emphasized this conclusion, but his postmodern position has as yet made small impression.1937 May, John Q. Stewart, “An Astronomer Looks at the Modern Epoch”, in The Scientific Monthly, volume 44, number 5, page 402
2. 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.
   • What I am objecting to is that aspect of postmodern thought that rejects the idea of any objective reality.2001 Apr, Kristen Renwick Monroe, “Paradigm Shift: From Rational Choice to Perspective”, in International Political Science Review, volume 22, number 2, page 167 n22

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Noun

postmodernism (usually uncountable, plural postmodernisms)

1. (usually) Any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement.
2. (usually) An attitude of skepticism or irony toward modernist ideologies, often questioning the assumptions of Enlightenment rationality and rejecting the idea of objective truth.
   • 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...2001, Daniel Gordon, editor, Postmodernism and the Enlightenment, Routledge, →ISBN, page 202