postmodern

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post·mod·ern | \ ˌpōs(t)-ˈmä-dərn

, nonstandard -ˈmä-d(ə-)rən \

Definition of postmodern

1 : of, relating to, or being an era after a modern one postmodern times a postmodern metropolis

2a : of, relating to, or being any of various movements in reaction to modernism that are typically characterized by a return to traditional materials and forms (as in architecture) or by ironic self-reference and absurdity (as in literature)

b : of, relating to, or being a theory that involves a radical reappraisal of modern assumptions about culture, identity, history, or language postmodern feminism

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Recent Examples on the Web The atrium brought a splash of postmodern drama to an otherwise low-key structure. — Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2022 This was the difference between Gogol’s nineteenth-century tale and my more postmodern predicament: here the nose was continually respawning. — Hedley Twidle, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021 Rather than a departure from his literary work, Handke’s position on Serbia may be of a piece with it—a logical consequence of the postmodern experimentation for which he has long been celebrated. — Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022 The point of the brand — famed for its $1,000 T-shirts and jackets as high as $95,000 — is elitism and a postmodern comment on the nature of money itself. — Thomas Adamson, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2022 Wishbone Reserve recently sold a sofa and two chairs by hot postmodern Italian architect Tobia Scarpa for $10,000 on Instagram. — Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2022 Ross has never been modern, much less postmodern; with few exceptions, her pictures are in subtly toned black-and-white. — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2022 Even a postmodern sensation like the inventor and entrepreneur Jay S. Walker’s library, built in 2002 in Ridgefield, Conn. — which is dedicated to the history of human imagination and laid out like an M.C. — New York Times, 24 Dec. 2021 Her work acknowledges the power that stories have to shape reality; her sensibilities were thus also squarely postmodern. — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2021 See More

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