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postcountercultural

postcountercultural adjective: occurring after a countercultural period (especially referring to the counterculture of the 1960s).

Adjective

postcountercultural (not comparable)

  1. Occurring after a countercultural period (especially referring to the counterculture of the 1960s).
    • The continued growth of postcountercultural values is particularly surprising in the face of the conspicuous resurgence of moral traditionalism associated with the "moral majority," the growth of evangelical Christianity, and the triumph of Ronald Reagan and political conservatism.1982 Winter, “Preface to the Issue, "Religion"”, in Daedalus, volume 111, number 1, Cambridge, M.A.: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 232
    • For many, it was one door too far opened for the sake of public decency, and the blowback that struck the Louds, PBS, the filmmakers and perceived liberal postcountercultural moral permissiveness was devastating.2013 September 5, Geoff Pevere, “An American Family: 40 years later, and there’s still nothing quite like this landmark doc”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC...

Origin of postcountercultural

From post- + countercultural.

Questions about postcountercultural

What does postcountercultural mean?
Postcountercultural means occurring after a countercultural period (especially referring to the counterculture of the 1960s).
What part of speech is postcountercultural?
Postcountercultural is an adjective.

Words near postcountercultural in the dictionary

  1. postcorrelation
  2. postcosmic
  3. postcostal
  4. postcotyloid
  5. postcount
  6. postcountercultural
  7. postcounterstained
  8. postcounts
  9. postcoup
  10. postcourse
  11. postcrania

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