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post-internet

post-internet is the alternative spelling of postinternet.

Meaning of postinternet

Noun

postinternet (uncountable)

  1. (attributive, often) Society and modes of interaction following the widespread adoption of the internet, especially in arts and criticism.
    • The term that’s being used is Post-Internet Art — not “post” in the sense that the internet is over, but that it’s ubiquitous. In the post-internet era, the internet is simply assumed.2016 October 21, Frank Rose, “The Mission to Save Vanishing Internet Art”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Noun capitalized: post-Internet

post-Internet (uncountable)

  1. (alternative) Alternative spelling of postinternet.

Questions about post-internet

What is post-internet the alternative spelling of?
Post-internet is the alternative spelling of postinternet.
What part of speech is post-internet?
Post-internet is a noun.

Words near post-internet in the dictionary

  1. post-incremented
  2. post-incrementing
  3. post-increments
  4. post-industrialisation
  5. post-industrialization
  6. post-internet
  7. post-ironic
  8. post-ironies
  9. post-irony
  10. post-Islamic
  11. post-it

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Adapted from Wiktionary: post-internet (page history and authors); post-Internet (page history and authors); postinternet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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