postmodern
/poʊstˈmɑdərn/
adjective
- Relating to or characteristic of a style and movement in art, architecture, and literature that reacts against modernism, often using mixed styles, irony, and playful references.
- Her postmodern painting combines classical figures with cartoon-like elements.
- The museum's new wing has a postmodern design with bright colors and unusual shapes.
- Many postmodern novels mix different genres and break traditional storytelling rules.
- Relating to a way of thinking that questions traditional ideas about truth, meaning, and certainty, often emphasizing that knowledge depends on culture and context.
- Postmodern philosophy argues that there is no single, universal truth.
- The professor's postmodern approach challenges the idea that history can be completely objective.
- In postmodern thought, language itself shapes how we understand reality.
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