postmodernism
Pronunciation
  • (America) IPA: /pəʊstˈmɑdɚnɪzəm/
Noun

postmodernism (uncountable)

  1. Any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement.
    Coordinate terms: modernism#English|modernism, metamodernism#English|metamodernism, post-postmodernism#English|post-postmodernism
  2. An attitude of skepticism or irony toward modernist ideologies, often questioning the assumptions of Enlightenment rationality and rejecting the idea of objective truth.
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