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English
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[edit]- (General American)IPA(key):/pəʊstˈmɑdɚnɪzəm/
Audio(US): (file)
Noun
[edit]postmodernism(usuallyuncountable,pluralpostmodernisms)
- Anystyleinart,architecture,literature,philosophy,etc., that reacts against anearliermodernistmovement.
- Coordinate terms:modernism,metamodernism,post-postmodernism
- An attitude ofskepticismorironytoward modernist ideologies, often questioning the assumptions ofEnlightenmentrationalityand rejecting the idea ofobjectivetruth.
- 2001,Daniel Gordon, editor,Postmodernism and the Enlightenment,Routledge,→ISBN,page202:
- The most famous definition ofpostmodernismis Lyotard's: “I definepostmodernas incredulity towards metanarratives.”[…]To accept Lyotard's definition ofpostmodernismis to accept the premise thatpostmodernismis the first movement since the Enlightenment to think critically about such narratives.
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[edit]a style of art, literature, etc
Romanian
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[edit]BorrowedfromEnglishpostmodernism.Bysurface analysis,postmodern+-ism.
Noun
[edit]postmodernismn(uncountable)
Declension
[edit]declension of postmodernism (singular only)
singular | ||
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ngender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un)postmodernism | postmodernismul |
genitive/dative | (unui)postmodernism | postmodernismului |
vocative | postmodernismule |
Swedish
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[edit]postmodernismc
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Nominative | postmodernism | postmodernismen | — | — |
Genitive | postmodernisms | postmodernismens | — | — |
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