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postmodern

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Etymology edit

From post- +‎ modern.

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postmodern (comparative more postmodern, superlative most postmodern)

  1. (literally) Relating to what follows the modern era. [1919[1]]
    • 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[1], →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.
  2. 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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postmodern (plural postmoderns)

  1. A postmodernist.
    • 2009 October 3, Claudia La Rocco, “Where All the World’s a Fashion Show”, in New York Times‎[2]:
      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?”

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  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “post-modern”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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Etymology edit

post- +‎ modern

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postmodern (strong nominative masculine singular postmoderner, not comparable)

  1. postmodern

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Positive forms of postmodern (uncomparable)
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative er ist postmodern sie ist postmodern es ist postmodern sie sind postmodern
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative postmoderner postmoderne postmodernes postmoderne
genitive postmodernen postmoderner postmodernen postmoderner
dative postmodernem postmoderner postmodernem postmodernen
accusative postmodernen postmoderne postmodernes postmoderne
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der postmoderne die postmoderne das postmoderne die postmodernen
genitive des postmodernen der postmodernen des postmodernen der postmodernen
dative dem postmodernen der postmodernen dem postmodernen den postmodernen
accusative den postmodernen die postmoderne das postmoderne die postmodernen
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein postmoderner eine postmoderne ein postmodernes (keine) postmodernen
genitive eines postmodernen einer postmodernen eines postmodernen (keiner) postmodernen
dative einem postmodernen einer postmodernen einem postmodernen (keinen) postmodernen
accusative einen postmodernen eine postmoderne ein postmodernes (keine) postmodernen

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Etymology edit

From English postmodern, By surface analysis, post- +‎ modern.

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postmodern m or n (feminine singular postmodernă, masculine plural postmoderni, feminine and neuter plural postmoderne)

  1. postmodern

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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

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Etymology edit

post- +‎ modern

Adjective edit

postmodern (not comparable)

  1. postmodern

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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

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