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postsexist

postsexist adjective: after the decline of sexism.

Adjective

postsexist (not comparable)

  1. After the decline of sexism
    • It's also notably different from defiantly politically incorrect humor, which revels in its flirting with racism and sexism in the name of free speech, but doesn't argue or imply that we live in a postracist or postsexist world.2006, Lisa Jervis, BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine, page 323
    • In the case of Star Trek particularly, its creator, Gene Roddenberry, conceived of a series that imagined a social world that expressed ideals of a postracist, postsexist, post religious (and implicitly postcapitalist) and peaceful earth governed by a unitary government, conditions that dif not...2012, Peter Robson, Law and Justice on the Small Screen

Origin of postsexist

From post- + sexist.

Questions about postsexist

What does postsexist mean?
Postsexist means after the decline of sexism.
What part of speech is postsexist?
Postsexist is an adjective.

Words near postsexist in the dictionary

  1. postsermon
  2. postservice
  3. postsession
  4. postsettlement
  5. postsex
  6. postsexist
  7. postsexual
  8. postshelter
  9. postshield
  10. postshock
  11. postshot

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