Meaning & use
postmodern
Relating to a late-twentieth-century movement in art, architecture, and thought that questioned objective truth and broke with modernist conventions.
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The museum's postmodern wing mixes classical columns with playful, mismatched materials.
Postmodern novels often blend genres and openly draw attention to their own fictional nature.
A note on using this word
Postmodern is used across art, architecture, literature, and philosophy, and its exact meaning shifts somewhat between fields.
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modernist
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