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postmedium

postmedium adjective: in a time when choice of medium no longer matters.

Adjective

postmedium (not comparable)

  1. In a time when choice of medium no longer matters.
    • Today many aspects of craft have been absorbed — minus the reverence — by contemporary art, now considered in its postmedium phase.2009 April 18, Roberta Smith, “Why Craft Never Was a Four-Letter Word”, in New York Times

Origin of postmedium

From post- + medium.

Questions about postmedium

What does postmedium mean?
Postmedium means in a time when choice of medium no longer matters.
What part of speech is postmedium?
Postmedium is an adjective.

Words near postmedium in the dictionary

  1. postmedially
  2. postmedian
  3. postmediastinal
  4. postmedication
  5. postmedieval
  6. postmedium
  7. postmeeting
  8. postmeiosis
  9. postmeiotic
  10. postmeiotically
  11. postmemories

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