post-millennial
post-millennial is the alternative spelling of postmillennial.
Meaning of postmillennial
Adjective
postmillennial (comparative more postmillennial, superlative most postmillennial)
- Pertaining to the belief that the Second Coming will take place after the millennium.
- 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...1990, Murray N. Rothbard, Karl Marx: Communist as Religious Eschatologist, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 123–179
- Pertaining to the period following the year 1000 or (now more usually) following the year 2000.
- […]“Sweet Nothing” is a quintessential example of both postmillennial EDM-pop music and neoliberal ideology because it shows how the two are intertwined.2015, Robin James, Resilience & Melancholy, Zero Books, →ISBN
- Antonyms:
- premillennial
- Following the millennial generation; relating to Generation Z.
- “I want to get into the heads of people younger than me, to be postmillennial,” she says. “I look at different Instagram influencers, at the music and the music scene, to try to understand it all.”2020 February 7, Melanie Gerlis, quoting Avery Singer, “Avery Singer: the artist breathing fresh life into painting”, in Financial Times
Forms of post-millennial
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more post-millennial |
| superlative | most post-millennial |
| Noun | |
| plural | post-millennials |
Questions about post-millennial
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- Post-millennial is the alternative spelling of postmillennial.
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