postmodernism

English

Etymology

Frompost-+‎modernism.

Pronunciation

• (General American)IPA^(key):/pəʊstˈmɑdɚnɪzəm/

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Noun

postmodernism(usuallyuncountable,pluralpostmodernisms)

1. Anystyleinart,architecture,literature,philosophy,etc., that reacts against anearliermodernistmovement.

   Coordinate terms:modernism,metamodernism,post-postmodernism

2. 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.

Derived terms

• postmodernist
• post-postmodernism

Related terms

• postmodern
• postmodernity

Translations

a style of art, literature, etc

• Arabic:please add this translation if you can
• Armenian:պոստմոդեռնիզմ(postmodeṙnizm)
• Bulgarian:постмодерни́зъм(bg)m(postmodernízǎm)
• Catalan:postmodernismef
• Chinese:

  Cantonese:Hậu hiện đại chủ nghĩa／Hậu hiện đại chủ nghĩa(hau⁶jin⁶doi⁶zyu²ji⁶),Hậu hiện đại chủ nghĩa(hau⁶jin⁶doi⁶zyu²ji⁶)

  Hokkien:Hậu hiện đại chủ nghĩa／Hậu hiện đại chủ nghĩa(āu-hiān-tāi-chú-gī)

  Mandarin:Hậu hiện đại chủ nghĩa／Hậu hiện đại chủ nghĩa(zh)(hòuxiàndàizhǔyì)

• Czech:postmodernaf
• Danish:postmodernisme
• Dutch:postmodernisme(nl)
• Esperanto:postmodernismo
• Estonian:postmodernism(et)
• Finnish:postmodernismi
• French:post-modernisme(fr)m,postmodernisme(fr)m
• Galician:posmodernismom
• Georgian:პოსტმოდერნიზმი(ṗosṭmodernizmi)
• German:Postmoderne(de)f,Postmodernismusm
• Greek:μεταμοντερισμόςm(metamonterismós)
• Hebrew:פוסטמודרניזם(he)
• Hindi:उत्तर-आधुनिकतावादm(uttar-ādhuniktāvād)
• Hungarian:posztmodern(hu)
• Icelandic:póstmódernismim
• Interlingua:postmodernismo
• Irish:iarnua-aoiseachasm
• Italian:postmodernismo(it)m
• Japanese:ポストモダニズム(posutomodanizumu)
• Kazakh:постмодернизм(postmodernizm)
• Korean:포스트모더니즘(poseuteumodeonijeum)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish:postmodernîzm

• Limburgish:Posmodernisme
• Lithuanian:postmodernizmasm
• Macedonian:постмодерни́замm(postmodernízam)
• Malay:postmodenisme
• Malayalam:ഉത്തരാധുനികത(uttarādhunikata)
• Maori:angatuahoutanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:postmodernismem

  Nynorsk:postmodernismem

• Persian:پسانوگرایی(fa)
• Polish:postmodernizm(pl)m
• Portuguese:pós-modernismo(pt)m
• Romanian:postmodernismm
• Russian:постмодерни́зм(ru)m(postmodɛrnízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:постмодернизамm,постмодернаf

  Roman:postmodernizam(sh)m,postmoderna(sh)f

• Slovak:postmodernaf
• Spanish:postmodernidad(es)f,posmodernismo(es)m
• Swedish:postmodernism(sv)c
• Tamil:பின்நவீனத்துவம்(piṉnavīṉattuvam)
• Turkish:postmodernizm(tr)
• Ukrainian:постмодерні́змm(postmodernízm)
• Vietnamese:trường phái hậu hiện đại

Romanian

Etymology

BorrowedfromEnglishpostmodernism.Bysurface analysis,postmodern+‎-ism.

Noun

postmodernismn(uncountable)

1. postmodernism

Declension

declension of postmodernism (singular only)

	singular
ngender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un)postmodernism	postmodernismul
genitive/dative	(unui)postmodernism	postmodernismului
vocative	postmodernismule

Swedish

Etymology

post-+‎modernism

Noun

postmodernismc

1. postmodernism

Declension

Declension ofpostmodernism
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	postmodernism	postmodernismen	—	—
Genitive	postmodernisms	postmodernismens	—	—