postmodernism

1. 1.

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

   Broadergenre

Other forms of postmodernism

plural

postmodernisms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about postmodernism

What does postmodernism mean?

postmodernism means "genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism".

How many syllables are in postmodernism?

postmodernism has 4 syllables: post-mo-der-nism. The stress falls on "mo". In IPA it is /ˌpoʊstˈmɑdɚˌnɪzm/.

Is postmodernism a common word?

postmodernism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with postmodernism?

1 word rhymes with postmodernism. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.