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postmodernisms

postmodernisms is the plural of postmodernism.

Meaning of postmodernism

Noun

postmodernism (usually uncountable, plural postmodernisms)

  1. (usually) Any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement.
  2. (usually) An attitude of skepticism or irony toward modernist ideologies, often questioning the assumptions of Enlightenment rationality and rejecting the idea of objective truth.
    • The most famous definition of postmodernism is Lyotard's: “I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives.” […] To accept Lyotard's definition of postmodernism is to accept the premise that postmodernism is the first movement since the Enlightenment to think critically about such...2001, Daniel Gordon, editor, Postmodernism and the Enlightenment, Routledge, →ISBN, page 202

Questions about postmodernisms

What is postmodernisms the plural of?
Postmodernisms is the plural of postmodernism.

Words near postmodernisms in the dictionary

  1. postmodernise
  2. postmodernised
  3. postmodernises
  4. postmodernising
  5. postmodernism
  6. postmodernisms
  7. postmodernist
  8. postmodernistic
  9. postmodernists
  10. postmodernities
  11. postmodernity

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