Definition of Postmodernist in English :

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Postmodernist meaning in English

Meaning of Postmodernist in English

Pronunciation of Postmodernist in English

Postmodernist pronunciation in English

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Postmodernist

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Adjective

1. postmodern, postmodernist

of or relating to postmodernism

Example Sentences:
'postmodernist architecture'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Postmodernist

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adj.
1. Of or relating to art, architecture, or literature that reacts against earlier modernist principles, as by reintroducing traditional or classical elements of style or by carrying modernist styles or practices to extremes: "It [a roadhouse]is so architecturally interesting ... with its postmodern wooden booths and sculptural clock" (Ruth Reichl).
2. Of or relating to an intellectual stance often marked by eclecticism and irony and tending to reject the universal validity of such principles as hierarchy, binary opposition, categorization, and stable identity.

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