postmodernism

English

Etymology

From post- +‎ modernism.

Pronunciation

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

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Noun

postmodernism (usually uncountable, plural postmodernisms)

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

   Coordinate terms: modernism, metamodernism, post-postmodernism

2. An attitude of skepticism or irony toward modernist ideologies, often questioning the assumptions of Enlightenment rationality and rejecting the idea of objective truth.
   • 2001, Daniel Gordon, editor, Postmodernism and the Enlightenment, Routledge, →ISBN, page 202:

     The most famous definition of postmodernism is Lyotard's: “I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives.” […] To accept Lyotard's definition of postmodernism is to accept the premise that postmodernism is 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: postmodernisme f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 後現代主義／后现代主义 (hau⁶ jin⁶ doi⁶ zyu² ji⁶), 后现代主义 (hau⁶ jin⁶ doi⁶ zyu² ji⁶)

  Hokkien: 後現代主義／后现代主义 (āu-hiān-tāi-chú-gī)

  Mandarin: 後現代主義／后现代主义 (zh) (hòuxiàndàizhǔyì)

• Czech: postmoderna f
• Danish: postmodernisme
• Dutch: postmodernisme (nl)
• Esperanto: postmodernismo
• Estonian: postmodernism (et)
• Finnish: postmodernismi
• French: post-modernisme (fr) m, postmodernisme (fr) m
• Galician: posmodernismo m
• Georgian: პოსტმოდერნიზმი (ṗosṭmodernizmi)
• German: Postmoderne (de) f, Postmodernismus m
• Greek: μεταμοντερισμός m (metamonterismós)
• Hebrew: פוסטמודרניזם (he)
• Hindi: उत्तर-आधुनिकतावाद m (uttar-ādhuniktāvād)
• Hungarian: posztmodern (hu)
• Icelandic: póstmódernismi m
• Interlingua: postmodernismo
• Irish: iarnua-aoiseachas m
• 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: postmodernizmas m
• Macedonian: постмодерни́зам m (postmodernízam)
• Malay: postmodenisme
• Malayalam: ഉത്തരാധുനികത (uttarādhunikata)
• Maori: angatuahoutanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: postmodernisme m

  Nynorsk: postmodernisme m

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

  Cyrillic: постмодернизам m, постмодерна f

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

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English postmodernism. By surface analysis, postmodern +‎ -ism.

Noun

postmodernism n (uncountable)

1. postmodernism

Declension

declension of postmodernism (singular only)

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

Swedish

Etymology

post- +‎ modernism

Noun

postmodernism c

1. postmodernism

Declension

Declension of postmodernism

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	postmodernism	postmodernisms
	definite	postmodernismen	postmodernismens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—