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post·mod·ern (p

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rn)

adj.

Of or relating to art, architecture, or literature that reacts against earlier modernist principles, as by reintroducing traditional or classical elements of style or by carrying modernist styles or practices to extremes: "It [a roadhouse]is so architecturally interesting . . . with its postmodern wooden booths and sculptural clock" (Ruth Reichl).

post·modern·ism n.

post·modern·ist adj. & n.

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Noun

postmodernism - genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism

genre - a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique

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postmodernism [ˈpəʊstˈmɒdənɪzəm] N → posmodernismo m

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