postmodernism

pronunciation

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  • Noun:
    genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism

Word Origin

postmodernism (n.)
also post-modernism, by 1977, from post- + modernism. Defined by Terry Eagleton as "the contemporary movement of thought which rejects ... the possibility of objective knowledge" and is therefore "skeptical of truth, unity, and progress" ["After Theory," 2003]. Related: post-modernist (1965).

Example

1. Do you believe in postmodernism ?

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