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postmodernese

postmodernese noun: the jargon of postmodernism.

Noun

postmodernese (uncountable)

  1. The jargon of postmodernism.
    • Moving from content to style, the introduction and too many of the articles are written in that thick postmodernese dialect that only hinders communicating with undergraduates and other mortals.1994, Anthropology and Humanism, volume 19, page 214

Origin of postmodernese

From postmodern + -ese.

Questions about postmodernese

What does postmodernese mean?
Postmodernese means the jargon of postmodernism.
What part of speech is postmodernese?
Postmodernese is a noun.

Words near postmodernese in the dictionary

  1. postmitotic
  2. postmitotically
  3. postmix
  4. postmixes
  5. postmodern
  6. postmodernese
  7. postmodernisation
  8. postmodernise
  9. postmodernised
  10. postmodernises
  11. postmodernising

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