POSTMODERNISM

postmodernism

(noun) genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

postmodernism (usually uncountable, plural postmodernisms)

Any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc, that reacts against an earlier modernist movement.

Coordinate terms: modernism, metamodernism, post-postmodernism

An attitude of skepticism or irony toward modernist ideologies, often questioning the assumptions of Enlightenment rationality and rejecting the idea of objective truth.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

22 September 2024

SPRINGBOARD

(noun) a beginning from which an enterprise is launched; “he uses other people’s ideas as a springboard for his own”; “reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions”; “the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out”


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