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postmillennial

postmillennial adjective: pertaining to the belief that the Second Coming will take place after the millennium.

Adjective

postmillennial (comparative more postmillennial, superlative most postmillennial)

  1. 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
  2. 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
    • In 2001, the US author Marc Prensky invented the term “digital native” to describe the post-millennial generation who would grow up in an online world.2016 June 18, Rosie Ifould, “‘I worried people would forget about me’: can teenagers survive without social media?”, in The Guardian
    Antonyms:
    premillennial
  3. 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

Noun

postmillennial (plural postmillennials)

  1. A member of the generation following the millennials; a Gen-Zer.
    • The Founders, the Plurals, iGen or ReGen – what should we call the post-millennials?2015 December 2, “The Founders, the Plurals, iGen or ReGen – what should we call the post-millennials?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Antonyms of postmillennial

Forms of postmillennial

Adjective
comparativemore postmillennial
superlativemost postmillennial
alternative formpost-millennial
Noun
pluralpostmillennials

Origin of postmillennial

From post- + millennial.

Words formed from postmillennial

Questions about postmillennial

What does postmillennial mean?
Postmillennial means pertaining to the belief that the Second Coming will take place after the millennium.
What part of speech is postmillennial?
Postmillennial can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near postmillennial in the dictionary

  1. postmilitary
  2. postmilking
  3. postmillenarian
  4. postmillenarianism
  5. postmillenarians
  6. postmillennial
  7. postmillennialism
  8. postmillennialist
  9. postmillennialists
  10. postmillennials
  11. postmillennium

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