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postsecular

postsecular adjective: after secularization.

Adjective

postsecular (not comparable)

  1. After secularization.
    • If secularization means that the world is getting a little less religious every day, then we live in a postsecular world.2008, Douglas Jacobsen, Rhonda Jacobsen, The American University in a Postsecular Age, page 10

Origin of postsecular

From post- + secular.

Questions about postsecular

What does postsecular mean?
Postsecular means after secularization.
What part of speech is postsecular?
Postsecular is an adjective.

Words near postsecular in the dictionary

  1. postsecondary school
  2. postsecondary schools
  3. postsecretory
  4. postsectarian
  5. postsectarians
  6. postsecular
  7. postsedimentary
  8. postsegregation
  9. postsegregational
  10. postseismic
  11. postseizural

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