postmodern
postmodern adjective: relating to what follows the modern era.
Adjective
postmodern (comparative more postmodern, superlative most postmodern)
- Relating to what follows the modern era.
- The nearer is a fact to the temporary limits of knowledge, the more implicated becomes this regression and the more blurred ought to be statement of fact. [Percy W.] Bridgman of Harvard recently has emphasized this conclusion, but his postmodern position has as yet made small impression.1937 May, John Q. Stewart, “An Astronomer Looks at the Modern Epoch”, in The Scientific Monthly, volume 44, number 5, page 402
- A new book by Peter Drucker, author of “The New Society” and “America's Next Twenty Years,” will be published next Wednesday by Harper. In “Landmarks of Tomorrow,” Mr. Drucker discusses the postmodern world and how it differs from the old “modern” world that began with Descartes and the empiricists.1958 December 31, “Books–Authors”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of postmodernism, especially as represented in art, architecture, literature, science, or philosophy that reacts against an earlier modernism.
- What I am objecting to is that aspect of postmodern thought that rejects the idea of any objective reality.2001 Apr, Kristen Renwick Monroe, “Paradigm Shift: From Rational Choice to Perspective”, in International Political Science Review, volume 22, number 2, page 167 n22
- For an illustration of the differences between the traditional, positivist curriculum and the more postmodern reconceptualized curriculum, see Hanley and Montgomery.2005 Mar, Janet R. Barrett, “Planning for Understanding: A Reconceptualized View of the Music Curriculum”, in Music Educators Journal, volume 91, number 4, page 25
Noun
postmodern (plural postmoderns)
- A postmodernist.
- Trajal Harrell frames his program notes for “Twenty Looks or Paris Is Burning at the Judson Church (S)” with the potentially academic question, “What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the ball scene in Harlem had come downtown to perform alongside the early postmoderns at Judson Church?”2009 October 3, Claudia La Rocco, “Where All the World’s a Fashion Show”, in New York Times
postmodern meaning in Hindi, Malayalam and Gujarati
postmodern in Hindi
- Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of postmodernism
- उत्तर-आधुनिक uttar-ādhunik
postmodern in Malayalam
- ഉത്തരാധുനികം
postmodern in Gujarati
- પોસ્ટમોર્ડન
Examples of postmodern in a sentence
- Gen Ys grew up in a media-saturated postmodern world where technology was pervasive.
- Façadism, with its emphasis on show and its disregard for authenticity, is very much a postmodern approach.
- This assumption leads us to historiographic metafiction, a style of writing that emerged during the postmodern era.
Forms of postmodern
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more postmodern |
| superlative | most postmodern |
| alternative form | pomo |
| alternative form | po-mo |
| alternative form | post-modern |
| Noun | |
| plural | postmoderns |
Origin of postmodern
From post- + modern.
Words formed from postmodern
Questions about postmodern
- What does postmodern mean?
- Postmodern means relating to what follows the modern era.
- What is postmodern in Hindi?
- Postmodern in Hindi is उत्तर-आधुनिक (uttar-ādhunik). See Postmodern meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is postmodern?
- Postmodern can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near postmodern in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: postmodern (page history and authors); postmodern (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); postmodern (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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