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POSTMODERNISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does postmodernism mean?
• POSTMODERNISM (noun)
The noun POSTMODERNISM has 1 sense:
1. genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism
Familiarity information: POSTMODERNISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("postmodernism" is a kind of...):
genre (a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique)
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