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English
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Adjective
postmodern (comparative more postmodern, superlative most postmodern)
- (literally) Relating to what follows the modern era.
- 1937 May, John Q. Stewart, “An Astronomer Looks at the Modern Epoch”, in The Scientific Monthly, volume 44, number 5, page 402:
- The nearer is a fact to the temporary limits of knowledge, the more implicated becomes this regression and the more blurred ought to be statement of fact. [Percy W.] Bridgman of Harvard recently has emphasized this conclusion, but his postmodern position has as yet made small impression.
- 1958 December 31, “Books–Authors”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- A new book by Peter Drucker, author of “The New Society” and “America's Next Twenty Years,” will be published next Wednesday by Harper. In “Landmarks of Tomorrow,” Mr. Drucker discusses the postmodern world and how it differs from the old “modern” world that began with Descartes and the empiricists.
- Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of postmodernism, especially as represented in art, architecture, literature, science, or philosophy that reacts against an earlier modernism.
- 2001 Apr, Kristen Renwick Monroe, “Paradigm Shift: From Rational Choice to Perspective”, in International Political Science Review, volume 22, number 2, page 167 n22:
- What I am objecting to is that aspect of postmodern thought that rejects the idea of any objective reality.
- 2005 Mar, Janet R. Barrett, “Planning for Understanding: A Reconceptualized View of the Music Curriculum”, in Music Educators Journal, volume 91, number 4, page 25:
- For an illustration of the differences between the traditional, positivist curriculum and the more postmodern reconceptualized curriculum, see Hanley and Montgomery.
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Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of postmodernism
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Noun
postmodern (plural postmoderns)
- A postmodernist.
- 2009 October 3, Claudia La Rocco, “Where All the World’s a Fashion Show”, in New York Times:
- Trajal Harrell frames his program notes for “Twenty Looks or Paris Is Burning at the Judson Church (S)” with the potentially academic question, “What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the ball scene in Harlem had come downtown to perform alongside the early postmoderns at Judson Church?”
References
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “post-modern”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- “postmodern”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “postmodern”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “postmodern”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
German
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Adjective
postmodern (strong nominative masculine singular postmoderner, not comparable)
Declension
Positive forms of postmodern (uncomparable)
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Further reading
- “postmodern” in Duden online
- “postmodern” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Romanian
Etymology
From English postmodern, By surface analysis, post- + modern.
Adjective
postmodern m or n (feminine singular postmodernă, masculine plural postmoderni, feminine and neuter plural postmoderne)
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Declension of postmodern
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | postmodern | postmodernă | postmoderni | postmoderne | ||
| definite | postmodernul | postmoderna | postmodernii | postmodernele | |||
| genitive/ dative |
indefinite | postmodern | postmoderne | postmoderni | postmoderne | ||
| definite | postmodernului | postmodernei | postmodernilor | postmodernelor | |||
Further reading
- postmodern in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Swedish
Etymology
Adjective
postmodern (not comparable)
Declension
| Inflection of postmodern | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | postmodern | — | — |
| Neuter singular | postmodernt | — | — |
| Plural | postmoderna | — | — |
| Masculine plural3 | postmoderne | — | — |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | postmoderne | — | — |
| All | postmoderna | — | — |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic | |||