Meaning

2 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)Any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement.

    Postmoderne, Postmodernismus

    постмодерни́змpostmodɛrnízm

    постмодерні́змpostmodernízm

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

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

Examples

14 sentences
  1. If someone describes "postmodernism" as an ideology, they should never be taken seriously about anything.

    Якщо хтось описує "постмодернізм" як ідеологію, все, що вони говорять на будь-яку тему, не повинно сприйматися всерйоз.

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  2. If somebody describes "postmodernism" as an ideology, they should never be taken seriously about anything.

    Якщо хтось описує "постмодернізм" як ідеологію, все, що вони говорять на будь-яку тему, не повинно сприйматися всерйоз.

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  3. I'm not a fan of postmodernism.

    ruЯ не поклонник постмодернизма.

    deIch bin kein Fan der Postmoderne.

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  4. According to postmodernism, language shapes our thinking.

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  5. According to the ideas of postmodernism, language shapes our thinking.

    ruСогласно идеям постмодернизма, язык формирует наше мышление.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a style of art, literature, etc:
Русский
By meaning 1
a style of art, literature, etc:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a style of art, literature, etc:

Forms

plural: postmodernisms
Singularpostmodernism

uncountable

Word family

4 related words

See also

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